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Language
English
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Description
"Indiana "Ana" Aaron is a talented coder and IT specialist, but she doesn't always fit in at work. When she speaks up one too many times for her boss's ego, she's transferred to a remote team-and it's clear this is her last chance to blend in. Ana sees working from home as a chance at redemption; she can keep her head down and her camera off. But when her new boss praises her assertiveness and thanks Mr. Aaron, she sees no reason to correct him. But...
2) Proving ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their 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 - a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds rather than forty hours by human hand - even though there...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer’s miscalculations, she is propelled into a new position where she’s torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
5) Wired
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Allison Trent doesn't look like a hacker. In fact, when she's not in college working on her degree, she models on the side. But behind her gorgeous face is a brilliant mind for computers and her real love is writing--and hacking--code. Her dream is to write a new security program that could revolutionize the tech industry. Hotshot FBI agent Liam Scott has a problem: a leak deep within his own department. He needs the skills of a top-notch hacker...
Author
Series
Girls who code volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After signing up for a "hackathon" day of coding, Sophia and her coding club friends welcome a robotics expert into their group, but find their teamwork challenged by conflicting opinions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's mad love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered mathematics poetical science. Through her friendship with inventor Charles Babbage, she became involved in programming his Analytical Engine, a precursor...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Her work spread awareness of what an early computer could do"--
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