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1) Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
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Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.
After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete...
After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete...
4) Proving ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer
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2022.
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xix, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds rather than forty hours by human hand - even though there...
5) Storm cycle
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2009
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402 p. ; 24 cm.
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Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronc illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as...
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2023.
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324 pages ; 21 cm
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"As the only woman programmer at her firm, Lark is thrilled to land an account for a huge client. But her dream job quickly becomes a nightmare when she accidentally projects a scandalous (and completely unsolicited) picture from her phone onto the screen during a presentation. Before she can recover, her coworkers jump in to steal the account, leaving Lark jobless and broke. When a friend suggests text message-based sex work as a stopgap between...
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[2023]
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320 pages ; 21 cm
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A woman having no luck with online dating creates an anonymous dating review app and is paired at work on a project with a haughty content writer whom she realizes is the most-reviewed walking red flag on her app.
A woman with high standards. A rival coworker. And the promotion that stands between them ... Coder Marina Spicer has no time to waste when it comes to love, hence her long list of dealbreakers. Frustrated by the online dating world, she...
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Wyman Ford novels volume 4
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2014
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"When miscalculations lead to a catastrophe during the testing of an artificial intelligence designed for a NASA probe, the AI escapes to the internet. Now the programmer who created "Dorothy" must team up with former CIA agent Wyman Ford to locate her before something devastating happens"--
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"During World War II, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as human computers--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But they were never interested in developing weapons--their hearts lay in...
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*One of Amazon's 20 Best Books of 2017* Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Southern Living. In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night,...
12) 1st case
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Angela Hoot's unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school-- and into the FBI's cyber-forensics unit as an intern. There's a messaging app with sophisticated tracking capabilities surfaces. Its beta users, all young women, are only identified as they turn up dead in their bedrooms. As Angela races to crack the killer's digital code, their technical rivalry escalates. She must deny the killer access to her personal life,...
13) Stand-in groom
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Pub. Date
p2009
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6 sound discs (6 hr., 47 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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They met in the middle of a Boston street mugging. By the time Johnny Anziano helped rescue the new shop-owner on the block, he'd fallen completely in love. But it seemed like the romance was over before it even started. Because in less than a week, Chelsea Spencer was getting married.
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[2016]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer.
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[2015]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
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2021.
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296 pages ; 22 cm
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Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.
Brilliant coder Asha runs into her high school crush, Cyrus, at a chance meeting. With their friend Jules, they build a social media platform that could bring meaning and connection to millions of lives through personalized rituals. When their app becomes a sensation, Asha is suddenly...
19) Space heroes
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2018.
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23 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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2018.
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339 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Veronica Mars meets the World of Warcraft in this mystery romp with a hilarious heroine. Working for a games development company is my dream job. So, when a slightly sketchy lawyer offered me the opportunity, I had to take it! Who cares that the company has some quirks? No job is perfect. Some questionable, but probably totally normal issues: A mysterious whistle-blower is posting the industry's dirty laundry on Reddit. An unidentified corpse is...
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