[Fig.] US media reveals the past of the world's earliest group of female computer experts

They started playing with computers 60 years ago, programmed the world's first computer, and were among the world's first "hackers" who wrote programs for the world’s first electronic computer, ENIAC. According to a report by American media on February 5th, in the computer age, many elderly people are not falling behind. However, little known is the fact that in the United States there are still a few “grandma-level” computer experts in their 80s: they helped the military accurately calculate the trajectory of artillery shell launches during World War II, wrote programs for the world's first electronic computer, and were also among the world's first “hackers”. For more than half a century, these “grandma-level” computer experts...