About the Author
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Kathy Kleiman
Kathy Kleiman is a leader in Internet law and policy and teaches at American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC. Her passion for finding the truth about the women programming pioneers of ENIAC led her to founding the ENIAC Programmers Project, producing the documentary, The Computers, and writing Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer.
Kathy Kleiman is Senior Policy Fellow with the Program for Information Justice & Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law. She helps manage the Internet as part of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization she helped to found.
“In Proving Ground, I tell the ENIAC Programmers story in its full detail — from the ENIAC Programmers’ education and attending college during their Depression, their recruitment by the Army during WWII to calculate ballistics trajectories to aim cannons, and programming the enormous ENIAC computer for these trajectory equations without the security clearance to see the machine! These inspiring stories belong not just to me, but to everyone.”
– Kathy Kleiman
Kathy Kleiman (L), Jean Jennings Bartik, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli (R), with Betty Snyder Holberton in front, at ENIAC’s 50th Anniversary.