PROVING GROUND: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer. By Kathy Kleiman. Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, ...

"Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the Worlds First Modern Computer" by by Kathy Kleiman. When the world's first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, ...

You don't need to visit too many high-tech cube farms and computer programming confabs before you notice that women in computer science are few and far between. In a new book entitled "Unlocking the ...

Early evening in a basement classroom, biostatistician Stephanie Hicks stands at a podium, aglow by the light of her laptop, parsing the intricacies of a computer programming language known simply as ...

Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their experiences in the field ...