Betty Holberton is one of the original ENIAC crew. (Nee Snyder). Inventor of the mnemonic instruction set (called C-10) for the BINAC, which Grace Hopper described as "the basis for all subsequent programming languages." It has been said that in creating this, she moved away from switch assemblies for computers towards keyboards. ENIAC ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was long thought to have been the first Turing-complete electronic computer. ... C10 or C-10 may refer to: The KC-10 Extender, a military version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. ... BINAC, the Binary Automatic Computer, was an early electronic computer designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1949. ... Grace Hopper Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an early computer pioneer. ...

She also wrote the first generative programming system (SORT/MERGE), the first statistical analysis package (for the 1950 US Census).

She was the person who suggested grey as the colour for UNIVAC computers (rather than black as it was at the time). This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

In 1997 she recieved the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, which is the highest honor possible for a computer programer.

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