Over on Threadreaderapp, Jeremy Keeshin hosts a blog thread about making computer science more engaging. The one post assembled on April 8, 2025 is a reconstruction of 23 tweets on X (an app whose owner would asphyxiate to realize that the structure of modern software was created by women).
See, men made a machine, but entering numbers and what-not, well that is women’s work. “Human computers” that put men on the moon, that calculate missile trajectories during WWII, that entered all the data for income taxes, etc. Women did meticulous detail work, not men.
To program the first machine so it could actually calculate numbers, six women were hired: Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.
Find out more on the thread reader app: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1909626044845621299.html
Other postings by Mr. Keeshin include a female blogging about life under Taliban rule, MIT’s interrogate program, and details about Alan Turing and why he got erased from history.