Before World War II, "computers" referred to people, not machines. Among them were the female operators of the ENIAC, the world's first large-scale, electronic, general-purpose digital computer. They programmed ENIAC to calculate critical firing tables for the war, a task that manually took about 30 hours per equation, but with ENIAC, only 20 minutes. This video shows an interview with Jean Bartik, one of the six pioneering women behind ENIAC. Without any manuals or courses, Bartik and her colle