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Hall of Fame, along with the other original ENIAC programmers. This award was established in 1996 by WITI to "recognize, honor, and promote the outstanding contributions women make to the scientific and technological communities that improve and evolve our society".
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at the time, little recognition was attributed to the women working on the computer, with attention focused on the male engineers who built the machine. She resigned from the team in 1947 to get married before ENIAC was relocated to the
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hand-soldered joints. It weighed more than 30 short tons, occupied 167m2 and consumed 150 kW of electricity. Its huge power requirement led to a rumor that the lights across Philadelphia would dim every time it was switched on.
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after graduating to perform weather calculations, mainly because she knew how to operate an adding machine; in 1943, she was hired to perform calculations for
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ENIAC was a huge machine full of black panels and switches, containing 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7200 crystal diodes, 1500 relays,
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Her work on ENIAC and at the University of Pennsylvania was later recognized in the 2010 documentary film
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Meltzer enjoyed volunteering at Shir Ami Library and Sunday school story hour. She also delivered
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ENIAC was unveiled to the public on February 14, 1946, making headlines across the country.
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The ENIAC team is also the inspiration behind the award-winning 2013 documentary
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During her last four years, she had knitted more than 500 chemotherapy hats for
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The ENIAC Programmers (As Told By U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith)
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Marlyn Wescoff

Mathematician
Moore School of Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

Ruth Lichterman
ENIAC
ENIAC
Philadelphia
Temple University
Moore School of Engineering
ballistics
trajectories
mechanical calculators
Kathleen Antonelli
Jean Jennings Bartik
Frances Elizabeth Holberton
Frances Spence
Ruth Teitelbaum
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Women in Technology International
Meals on Wheels
Ewing
Hadassah
Susan B. Komen For the Cure
Yardley, Bucks County
The ENIAC Programmers (As Told By U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith)
media help

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