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          Betty Holberton

          Betty Snyder, 1944. Photo courtesy Priscilla Holberton
          Birthdate
          1917
          Birthplace
          Philadelphia, PA, USA
          Death date
          2001
          Associated organizations
          Remington Rand
          Fields of study
          Computing

          Biography

          Betty Holberton was born in 1917 in Philadelphia as Frances Elizabeth Snyder.

          She attended the University of Pennsylvania during the 1940s and studied journalism which allowed her to travel a lot.

          Betty Holberton was one of the original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC.

          During the Second World War, when men were fighting in the war, the US army was hiring women to calculate ballistic trajectories. Betty Snyder was chosen by the Moore School of Engineering and soon by the ENIAC along with Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer and others as a ‘computer’.

          The Moore School at UPenn was funded by the US Army during the Second World War. Here a group of about 80 women worked manually calculating ballistic trajectories - complex differential calculations. These women were called ‘computers’.

          In 1945, the Army decided to fund an experimental