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==Notable MANIAC programmers== * [[Mary Tsingou]] – developed algorithm used in the [[Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem]] * [[Klára Dán von Neumann]] – wrote the first programs for MANIAC I<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Kelly|first1=Kevin|title=Q&A: Hacker Historian George Dyson Sits Down With Wired's Kevin Kelly|issue=3|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/02/ff_dysonqa/all/1|magazine=WIRED|volume=20|accessdate=8 May 2017|date=17 February 2012}}</ref> * [[Dana Scott]] – programmed the MANIAC to enumerate all solutions to a [[pentomino]] puzzle by backtracking in 1958.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Golomb |first1=Solomon |title=Polyominoes |title-link= Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings |date=1994 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=0-691-02444-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780691085739/page/15 15] |edition=second}}</ref> * [[Marjorie Devaney]] – one of the first MANIAC I programmers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oral-History:Marjorie 'Marge' Devaney |url=https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Marjorie_%22Marge%22_Devaney |website=Engineering and Technology History Wiki |accessdate=2 July 2019}}</ref> * [[Arianna W. Rosenbluth]] – wrote the first full implementation of the widely used [[Markov chain Monte Carlo]] algorithm. * Paul Stein and Mark Wells – implemented [[Los Alamos chess]].<ref name="ECV_p175">Pritchard (1994), p. 175</ref>
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