Claire L. Evans Books

The story begins with Ada Lovelace, often mythologized as the world’s first computer programmer. I approach her not as a legend but as a foundational philosopher of computation. In the early nineteenth century, working alongside Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, she imagined a machine that c...

From Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

World War II catalyzed a radical acceleration in computing. In the middle of that upheaval stood the ENIAC—an enormous machine often called the first general-purpose electronic computer. But behind its blinking lights were six women: Jean Jennings Bartik, Betty Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltz...

From Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet