Kay McNulty, mother of modern-day computer programming, Born in Donegal 1921

#Onthisday 1921 Kay McNulty, the mother of modern-day computer programming was born in Donegal. McNulty’s family moved to the US where she got a degree in Mathematics which she used to compute artillery ballistic trajectories for the US Army during #WW2.

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