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Klára Dán von Neumann

von Neumann Klára Dán von Neumann (born Klára Dán; 18 August 1911 – 10 November 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, self-taught engineer and computer scientist, noted as one of the first computer programmers.[2][3] She was the first woman to execute modern-style code on a computer.[4] Klára made significant contributions to the world of programming, including work on the Monte Carlo method, ENIAC, and MANIAC I.[5][4] Early life[edit] Klára Dán, known as Klári to her friends and family, was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 18, 1911, to Károly Dán and Kamilla Stadler, a wealthy Jewish couple.[6][7][8] Her father had previously served in the Austro-Hungarian Army as an officer during World War I, and the family moved to Vienna to escape Béla Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic. Once the regime was overthrown, the family moved back to Budapest.

[6][7][8] Her father had previously served in the Austro-Hungarian Army as an officer during World War I, and the family moved to Vienna to escape Béla Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic. And so, after the war, Dán joined von Neumann in New Mexico to program the MANIAC I machine, which could store data, designed by her husband and Julian Bigelow. [5] With the start of World War II looming, Klára went back to Budapest to convince her parents and in-laws to leave the country.

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