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Betty Holberton

1917 - 2001

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Frances Elizabeth Holberton (March 7, 1917 – December 8, 2001) was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer). The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence. Holberton invented breakpoints in computer debugging. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Betty Holberton is the 97th most popular computer scientist (up from 100th in 2019), the 5,292nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,472nd in 2019) and the 59th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Betty Holberton ranks 97 out of 245. Before her are Evan Williams, Edward Feigenbaum, Kristen Nygaard, Gary Kildall, Stephen Cook, and Kathleen Antonelli. After her are Judea Pearl, Marlyn Meltzer, Ed Roberts, Robin Milner, Alan Cox, and Charles P. Thacker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Betty Holberton ranks 181. Before her are I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Red Auerbach, Musine Kokalari, André Waterkeyn, Zainab al Ghazali, and Jean Lucas. After her are William P. Gottlieb, Otto Glória, Domenico Bartolucci, Yuri Lyubimov, Franceska Mann, and Robert Manzon. Among people deceased in 2001, Betty Holberton ranks 165. Before her are Davorin Popović, Sergej Kraigher, Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, John Lewis, Pavel Schmidt, and Micheline Ostermeyer. After her are J. J. Johnson, Jaromil Jireš, Gloria Foster, Berry Berenson, Simon Slåttvik, and Ray Walston.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Holberton ranks 5,292 out of 20,380. Before her are Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820), Robert Montgomery (1904), Sable (1967), Lauren German (1978), James Crafts (1839), and Ram Dass (1931). After her are Alexander Payne (1961), David Foster Wallace (1962), Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), Mary Surratt (1823), Alice Coltrane (1937), and Robert B. Spencer (1962).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Betty Holberton ranks 59. Before her are Radia Perlman (1951), John Henry Holland (1929), Evan Williams (1972), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), Gary Kildall (1942), and Stephen Cook (1939). After her are Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Ed Roberts (1941), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Eric S. Raymond (1957), Alan Cooper (1952), and Robert W. Floyd (1936).

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