Kay McNulty: First Female Electonic Computer Programmer

Kay McNulty, from Donegal, was the first female computer programmer. She moved to the US, only able to speak Irish & graduated in maths. She worked for the US Army in WW2 calculating missile & ballistic trajectories & worked on the processor for the ENIAC computer.

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