IEEE History Center: Adele Katz Goldstine

Adele Katz was born in New York City in 1920.  She attended Hunter College and received her masters at the University of Michigan, becoming a mathematician.  She married Herman Heine Goldstine – who was involved in the early development of computers – in 1941.

At the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia, a group known as the ENIAC girls was programming the first general-purpose electronic computer, which Katz Goldstine joined in 1942.  She was the first programmer for ENIAC, as well as writing its documentation and operating manual.

Katz Goldstine died in 1964.

Source:  Stanley, Autumn.  Mothers and Daughters of Invention.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.