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  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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    Jeffrey Inman
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    Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The Nobel She Didn’t Win, and Says She Didn’t Deserve Picture ninety-six feet of paper. Every single night, another ninety-six feet. That is what a chart recorder spat out at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory outside Cambridge in 1967, and a twenty-four-year-old graduate student named Jocelyn Bell read all of it. By…

  • The Women of ENIAC

    The Women of ENIAC

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    Jeffrey Inman
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    The story of the six women who programmed the ENIAC, often overlooked in history, highlights their vital contributions to early computing. Despite their groundbreaking work, they were often misidentified as mere models. The narrative surrounding them raises awareness about the ongoing erasure of women’s contributions in technology and the importance of acknowledging all contributors.