Nonfiction Book Discussion

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Book Discussion, Virtual

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Adults
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Join us for this engaging discussion of thought-provoking non-fiction titles. In November, we will discuss

Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman

Top-secret research into computing continued after WWII as engineers and programmers rushed to complete confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer--better known as the ENIAC— even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence.

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