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Jean Bartik

1924 - 2011

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Jean Bartik (née Betty Jean Jennings; December 27, 1924 – March 23, 2011) was an American computer programmer who was one of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer. Bartik studied mathematics in school then began work at the University of Pennsylvania, first manually calculating ballistics trajectories and then using ENIAC to do so. The other five ENIAC programmers were Betty Holberton, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Bartik has received more than 250,530 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jean Bartik is the 101st most popular computer scientist (up from 114th in 2019), the 5,598th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,637th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 29

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  • 4.37

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  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jean Bartik ranks 101 out of 245. Before her are Yann LeCun, Liviu Librescu, John Draper, Karen Spärck Jones, Ed Roberts, and Betty Holberton. After her are Stephen Wolfram, Paul G. Comba, Anita Borg, Adele Goldberg, Robert W. Floyd, and Kristen Nygaard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Jean Bartik ranks 276. Before her are Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Ed Koch, J. D. Tippit, Sylvia Miles, Sabu Dastagir, and Ruth Leuwerik. After her are Omero Tognon, Budge Patty, Kenneth Noland, Anthony Caro, José Lázaro Robles, and María Dolores Pradera. Among people deceased in 2011, Jean Bartik ranks 246. Before her are Bob Brookmeyer, Theodore Roszak, Maurice Guigue, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Zhanna Prokhorenko, and Dennis Oppenheim. After her are Nusrat Bhutto, Edward Hardwicke, Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, Harry Morgan, Peter Post, and John Patrick Foley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jean Bartik ranks 5,598 out of 20,380. Before her are Lou Gramm (1950), Frances Lee McCain (1943), John Dall (1920), Branscombe Richmond (1955), Lee Radziwill (1933), and Sally Kellerman (1937). After her are Luther Vandross (1951), Seth Neddermeyer (1907), Ron Silver (1946), Merle Haggard (1937), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), and Bobby Bland (1930).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jean Bartik ranks 60. Before her are Larry Tesler (1945), Eric S. Raymond (1957), John Henry Holland (1929), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), Ed Roberts (1941), and Betty Holberton (1917). After her are Anita Borg (1949), Adele Goldberg (1945), Robert W. Floyd (1936), John Hopcroft (1939), Robert Taylor (1932), and David A. Huffman (1925).

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