Episode 12 - HAL Origins: The ENIAC Women and Another Tube Bites The Dust

HAL is reflecting on mother figures this week with the OGs of computer programming at ENIAC and the pioneering efforts of Eckert & Mauchley. FLASH: U.S. Army Builds Top Secret Ballistics Calculator! FLASH: Women's Contributions Undervalued! FLASH: Being Ahead Of Your Time Sucks! FLASH: Census Is Boring To Fill Out!

Plus: tea time, hot sausage machines, and steak and kidney pudding.

This Week In Science (12-17-22): the discovery of 2 million year old eDNA, Artemis I Orion splashes down from a perfect first mission, and an exciting new breakthrough in nuclear fusion...

The Secret History of The ENIAC Women | Kathy Kleiman | TEDxBeaconStreet

The ENIAC Programmers Project Film

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