Betty Holberton

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...

— Merlin, The Coder

Betty Snyder programs the ENIAC in building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL).

Contributors To Computer Science: Betty Holberton

Achievement: 10 December, 1945: One of the original programmers for the ENIAC

Other:

• She is considered one of the first computer programmers in history.
• The other five ENIAC programmers were Fran Bilas, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Jean Bartik.

Born: 7 March, 1917 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Died: 8 December, 2001 at 85 years of age

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