Birth Name:

Betty Holberton

Female

Birth Date:

Wed, Mar 07, 1917

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Age:

107

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

16°

Pis

34'

About Betty Holberton

Frances Elizabeth Holberton (March 7, 1917 – December 8, 2001) was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.

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External Links:

• "Programmed to Succeed: Betty Holberton". Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2006.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) at the Association for Women in Computing website

• Computer pioneer Betty Holberton dies at 84, Government Computer News, January 5, 2002

• Two oral history interviews with Frances E. Holberton. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. UNIVAC Conference (May 17–18, 1990) as well as interview by James Baker Ross (April 14, 1983). In the latter, Holberton discusses her education from 1940 through the 1960s and her experiences in the computing field. These include work with the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, David Taylor Model Basin, and the National Bureau of Standards. She discusses her perceptions of cooperation and competition between members of these organizations and the difficulties she encountered as a woman. She recounts her work on the ENIAC and LARC computers, her design of operating systems, and her applications programming.

• Frances E. Holberton Papers, circa 1950s–1980s. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Betty Holberton: Sun 16 Pisces, Moon 3 Virgo, Mercury 28 Aquarius, Venus 3 Pisces, Mars 15 Pisces, Jupiter 4 Taurus, Saturn 23 Cancer, Uranus 21 Aquarius, Neptune 2 Leo, Pluto 2 Cancer, Sun Conjunct Mars, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Sun Semi Square Jupiter, Sun Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Mercury Trine Pluto, Venus Sextile Jupiter, Venus Quincunx Neptune, Venus Trine Pluto, Mars Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Jupiter Square Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Pluto, Saturn Quincunx Uranus, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Betty Holberton: 20th-century American scientists, 2001 deaths, American computer scientists, March 7 births, 20th-century American women scientists, American women computer scientists, Scientists from Philadelphia, American computer programmers, 1917 births, Disease-related deaths in Maryland, COBOL, Human computers

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