Jean Bartik was one of the original six programmers for the ENIAC computer.
23 Facts About Jean Bartik
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Jean Bartik spent her later years as a real estate agent and died in 2011 from congestive heart failure complications.
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Content-management framework Drupal's default theme, Jean Bartik, is named in her honor.
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Jean Bartik's father, William Smith Jennings was from Alanthus Grove, where he was a schoolteacher as well as a farmer.
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Jean Bartik began her education at a local one-room school, and gained local attention for her softball skill.
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Jean Bartik graduated from Stanberry High School in 1941, aged 16.
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Jean Bartik was given the title of salutatorian on her graduation.
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Jean Bartik attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College now known Northwest Missouri State University, majoring in mathematics with a minor in English and graduated in 1945.
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In 1945, the United States Army was recruiting mathematicians from universities to aid in the war effort; despite a warning by her adviser that she would be "a cog in a wheel" with the Army, and encouragement to become a mathematics teacher instead, Jean Bartik decided to become a human computer.
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Jean Bartik applied to both IBM and the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 20.
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Jean Bartik was asked to set up problems for the ENIAC without being taught any techniques.
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Jean Bartik, who became the co-lead programmer, and the other four original programmers became extremely adept at running the ENIAC; with no manual to rely on, the group reviewed diagrams of the device, interviewed the engineers who had built it, and used this information to teach themselves the skills they needed.
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Jean Bartik described the first public demonstration of the ENIAC in 1946:.
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Jean Bartik converted the ENIAC into a stored program computer by March 1948.
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Jean Bartik co-programmed with her life-long friend Betty Holberton the first generative programming system for a computer.
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Later, Jean Bartik moved to Philadelphia when her husband, William Jean Bartik, took a job with Remington Rand.
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Unfortunately, due to a company policy at the time about husbands and wives working together, Jean Bartik was asked to resign from the company.
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Between 1951 and 1954, prior to her first child's birth, Jean Bartik did mostly freelance programming assignments for John Mauchly and was a helpmate to her husband.
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Once her son was born, Jean Bartik walked away from her career in computing to concentrate on raising a family, during which time she had two other children with her husband.
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Jean Bartik remained with Auerbach for eight years, then moved among positions with a variety of other companies for the rest of her career as a manager, writer, and engineer.
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Jean Bartik ultimately retired from the computing industry in 1986 when her final employer, Data Decisions, was sold; Jean Bartik spent the following 25 years as a real estate agent.
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Jean Bartik died from congestive heart failure in a Poughkeepsie, New York nursing home on March 23,2011.
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Jean Bartik especially went on to receive many honors and awards for her pioneering role programming the ENIAC, BINAC and UNIVAC, the latter of which helped to launch the commercial computer industry, and for turning the ENIAC into the world's first stored program computer.