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Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:

@ljrk Also shout out to Klára Dán von Neumann (John von Neumann's wife) also considered to be one of the first programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C3%A1ra_D%C3%A1n_von_Neumann

She was Head of the Statistical Computing Group at Princeton, and worked at Los Alamos laboratory. She programmed the MANIAC I and ENIAC and coded the first monte carlo simulation.

The Lost Women of Science podcast devoted an entire season to her, I've been meaning to get around to finishing it: https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-2