Adele Goldstine

Adele Goldstine
Adele Goldstine
Born	Adele Katz; December 21, 1920; New York City, U.S.
Died	November 1964 (aged 43)
Alma mater	Hunter College (BA); University of Michigan (MA);
Known for	First manual on electronic digital computer
Spouse	Herman Goldstine (m. 1941)
Children	2
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Programming and Mathematics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania; Los Alamos National Laboratory;

Adele Goldstine (née Katz; December 21, 1920 – November 1964) was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her work programming the computer, she was also an instrumental player in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be reprogrammed each time it was used to one that was able to perform a set of fifty stored instructions.

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