Kathleen Antonelli

Kathleen Antonelli was an Irish-American mathematician and one of the original programmers of ENIAC, the early electronic general-purpose computer.

Jean Bartik: Jean Bartik was an American mathematician and one of ENIAC’s original programmers. Bartik worked alongside Antonelli as a member of ENIAC’s original programming team.
ENIAC: ENIAC was an early electronic, general-purpose digital computer completed in 1945. Antonelli’s best-known work was programming this machine.
Plugboard: A plugboard is a panel of sockets and cables used to configure electrical connections in a machine. Programming ENIAC often meant rewiring plugboards to route data and operations.
Hidden Figures: Hidden Figures is a 2016 nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly about Black women mathematicians at NASA. Its renewed attention to overlooked computing labor parallels later recognition of ENIAC’s women programmers.
Frances Spence: Frances Spence was an American mathematician and one of ENIAC’s original programmers. Spence shared Antonelli’s work programming ENIAC by configuring its switches and cables.
Ballistic trajectory: A ballistic trajectory is the path followed by a projectile under forces such as gravity and air resistance. ENIAC’s first public demonstration calculated a ballistic trajectory.
Function table: A function table is a device that stores values used to look up mathematical functions. ENIAC’s function tables let programmers encode constants and mathematical operations.
ENIAC Programmers Project: The ENIAC Programmers Project documents the lives and work of ENIAC’s original women programmers. The project preserved interviews and records that helped restore Antonelli’s place in computing history.
Marlyn Meltzer: Marlyn Meltzer was an American mathematician and one of ENIAC’s original programmers. Meltzer was another member of the small team that developed ENIAC’s programming methods.
Monte Carlo method: The Monte Carlo method uses random sampling to estimate numerical results. ENIAC programmers later used the machine for calculations supporting Monte Carlo work.

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Betty HolbertonRelated: Antonelli's ENIAC work places her among Holberton's closest professional peers.