Computer

The Maryland Online Privacy Act of 2024 takes effect October 1, 2025.

We’ll go On the Record with Kathy Kleiman. Her book, Proving Ground, tells how six women mathematicians pushed through daunting obstacles programming the first modern computer--a World War II project of Aberdeen Proving Ground that launched the Information Age.

Two Baltimore City Public Schools are among 100 across the country chosen by Code.org, a national non-profit to pilot a new computer science course.

We hear about six women who shaped the course of modern computing, mostly behind the scenes. Law professor Kathy Kleiman lays out the history in her book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer.