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Calkhoven, Laurie

Summary: True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM Calkhoven

Robbins, Dean

Summary: Introduces the woman mathematician whose childhood love of numbers led to her prestigious education and contributions at NASA while explaining how her handwritten codes proved essential throughout numerous space missions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAM

Dolan, Hannah

Summary: Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DOL

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Dolan 2018

Kleiman, Kathy

Summary: "After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.092 KLE

Gibson, Karen Bush

Summary: "Real-world technology projects pair up with ... biographies of female computer scientists to make a ... book that will have kids ages 8 to 11 eager to develop their own apps"--Publisher marketing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019

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Bayarri, Jordi

Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAY

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