Dr. Adele Goldstine (d.1964)
Adele Goldstine assisted in the creation of the ENIAC, one of the world's first electronic digital computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s. She made a lasting contribution to the project by authoring The Manual for the ENIAC in 1946. This was the original technical description of the ENIAC and it detailed the machine right down to its resistors. Goldstine was a key member of a team of seven women who were the first programmers of the ENIAC. Along with Jean Bartik, she led a group that implemented John von Neumman’s “stored program” computer. This solved the problem of the programmers having to reconfigure all of the cables for each equation that the machine solved.

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