Ruth Teitelbaum

Ruth Teitelbaum ( Ruth Lichterman ( maiden name), * 1924, † 1986 in Dallas ) was one of the U.S. programmers of the ENIAC computer.

At Hunter College, she received her B.Sc. degree in mathematics. She was hired by the Moore School of Engineering to calculate ballistic trajectories. Ruth Teitelbaum was selected alongside Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff and Frances Bilas one of the first programmers for the ENIAC computer, which was developed to support the U.S. Army with the calculation of ballistic tables.

Ruth Teitelbaum traveled with ENIAC for ballistic research laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground, where she remained for more than two years to get to the next group of ENIAC programmers.

Ruth Teitelbaum made ​​with Marlyn Meltzer, a special team within the ENIAC programmers. As a " computer " for the Army, they calculated equations of ballistic trajectories carefully with the help of a desktop computer - a customary at that time, analog technology.

In 1948 she married an ENIAC engineer and took the name Teitelbaum. She died in Dallas in 1986.