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So the Army today named a supercomputer after my Mom, & another one after another one of the "ENIAC women", who programmed the first general-purpose electronic computer. https://www.army.mil/article/242062/army_researchers_acquire_two_new_supercomputers?fbclid=IwAR272P-JIFm3MqEWcgZvGkfbuNycAzZYOGrDhbByOvJjorNzGxToZSnjV2I
This is amusing because my Mom's first job title was "computer": she was hired in 1945 as a "human computer" to compute firing tables, & then signed up to program the ENIAC. "Computer" was for a long time a job title.
My Mom famously told Tom Petzinger of the Wall Street Journal that "The ENIAC was a son of a bitch to program". His editor didn't want to print it, but Tom said: "If a 71-year old woman can say it, the WSJ can print it!"
We will know that the supercomputer has absorbed my Mom's spirit when it wakes up and tells its programmers: "Yes, I am a son of a bitch to program, and I'm proud of it!"
