Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer (died 1964)

Adele Goldstine was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her programming work, she was instrumental in converting the ENIAC from a computer that required reprogramming each time it was used to one capable of performing a set of fifty stored instructions.

December 21 is the 355th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 10 days remain until the end of the year.