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Adele Goldstine

American computer programmer (1920-1964) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 44

Adele Goldstine was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC.

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Through her programming work, she was instrumental in converting the ENIAC from a computer that required reprogramming each time it was used to one capable of performing a set of fifty stored instructions.

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Academics
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Deceased
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Lived 1920 to 1964 · aged 44