Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Woman Behind the Curious Invention of Modern Software
March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023
WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news:
The year 1945 marked not only the birth of the atomic age, but also the birth of modern computer programming. The first fully electronic computing machine, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), came online in December 1945. But programming the ENIAC was an excruciatingly difficult task. Klara Dan von Neumann, who joined the Laboratory at Los Alamos af . . .
The year 1945 marked not only the birth of the atomic age, but also the birth of modern computer programming. The first fully electronic computing machine, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), came online in December 1945. But programming the ENIAC was an excruciatingly difficult task. Klara Dan von Neumann, who joined the Laboratory at Los Alamos af . . .