AI Bing and Me: A Conversation Series Video # 3 for Chapter Six: The Secret Code

Hello, everyone. Welcome to chapter six of my book, “The First Six: The Women Who Programmed the ENIAC Computer“. In this chapter, we will learn about the ENIAC, which was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was as big as a house and weighed 30 tons. It had 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 6,000 switches. It could perform 5,000 additions, 357 multiplications, or 38 divisions per second. The ENIAC was built at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II. It was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army. However, the war ended before the ENIAC was completed, so it was used for other purposes, such as weather forecasting, nuclear weapon design, and cryptography. The ENIAC was programmed by six women: Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Kathleen McNulty, Marlyn Wescoff, Ruth Teitelbaum, and Frances Bilas. They were known as the ENIAC girl