{"id":842,"date":"2016-01-04T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2015-12-13T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T20:07:57","slug":"all-about-jean-bartik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/all-about-jean-bartik\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Jean Bartik"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Bartik Biography- University of St Andrews (http:\/\/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/~history\/Biographies\/Bartik.html)<\/p>\n

Early Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean Bartik was born in Gentry County, Missouri, in 27 December 1924, under the name\u00a0Betty Jean Jennings. Her father, William Smith Jennings, was from Alanthus Grove and was a\u00a0schoolteacher and a farmer. Her mother\u2019s name was Lulu May Spainhower and she was from\u00a0Alanthus. Bartik had five elder siblings, three brother and two sisters. She graduated in 1945\u00a0from Northwest Missouri State Teachers College majoring in mathematics.<\/p>\n

Career<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1945, she was hired by the University of Pennsylvania as a maths major to calculate\u00a0ballistics trajectories for the Army Ordinance. She was required to carry out this work by\u00a0hand as a human computer. She applied and got selected for a project when the Electronic-numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was developed and became one of its first\u00a0programmers. ENIAC was programmed by setting dials and changing cable connections. As\u00a0there was no manual, she and her five other original programmers gained expertise in\u00a0programming the ENIAC only by reviewing its schematic diagrams and interacting with\u00a0engineers.<\/p>\n

She and a group of programmers worked at a later stage for the conversion of the ENIAC to a\u00a0stored program computer. Thus she came up with the BINAC and UNIVAC computers by\u00a0working along with ENIAC designers in the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. She\u00a0resigned in 1951, the same year UNIVAC was introduced.<\/p>\n

Personal Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

While working for Army ordinance in the University of Pennsylvania, she met an engineer\u00a0working on a Pentagon Project named William Bartik. They got married in 1946 and later\u00a0divorced in 1968.<\/p>\n

Later Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1967, Bartik returned to the regular job portfolio and became an Editor for Auerbach\u00a0Publishers. Later she worked for a firm named data Decisions in 1981 as a Senior Editor.\u00a0However, Data Decisions shut down in 1985 as it got acquired by McGraw-Hill. As a result,\u00a0she lost her job and started her career as a real estate agent at the age of 61. She died on March 23, 2011 from congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n

Significant Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

She, along with other original programmers of the ENIAC, was introduced into the\u00a0Women in\u00a0Technology International\u00a0Hall of Fame. She also received a fellowship at the Computer\u00a0History Museum for her contribution in converting the ENIAC into a stored program\u00a0computer. She also received awards like IEEE Computer Pioneer Award for her pioneering\u00a0work regarding the ENIAC and Korenman Award from the Multinational Center for\u00a0Development of Women in Technology (MDWIT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Bartik Biography- University of St Andrews (http:\/\/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/~history\/Biographies\/Bartik.html) Early Life Jean Bartik was born in Gentry County, Missouri, in 27 December 1924, under the name\u00a0Betty Jean Jennings. Her father, William Smith Jennings, was from Alanthus Grove and was a\u00a0schoolteacher and a farmer. Her mother\u2019s name was Lulu May Spainhower and she was from\u00a0Alanthus. Bartik had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}