In this excerpt from “The Computer Boys Take Over,” historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical ...

This week is the 60th anniversary of ENIAC — the first all-electronic machine that would eventually take the name of its programmers: computers. It was an engineering feat, but it was also a ...

Few people know that Argentine women have played a significant part in Latin America's computing history. In the 1960s, the first programming language in Argentina was created, called “Compilador del ...