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I found an incredible picture of the NEAC taken six months after the war ends, and it

has people dwarfed in the picture.

And there were six people in the picture, and two of them were women.

And I thought, wait a second, who were the women?

And so I looked and I found more pictures of NEAC, and there were more women.

The 40th anniversary of the NEAC was coming up, and at the 40th anniversary, I found a

cluster of women talking about programming the NEAC, and when they introduced themselves,

they began to tell me their stories, and I was fascinated.

I was captivated.

That's Kathy Climon.

The women she met that day were among a group of six women who programmed the first ever

electronic computer.

And that made way for the whole field of computer programming that's changed our world.

But until Kathy Climon rescued those six women from obscurity, it was as though they had

never existed.

This is an amazing story you have to tell.

Six women who changed the lives of every one of us, and yet they were totally erased

from history, and you found them.

Thank you for doing that.

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