Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli Pioneering Computer Programmer. Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly Antonelli (1921 – 2006) was born in the small village of Creeslough in the Gaeltacht area (Irish-speaking region) of County Donegal, in 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. She was one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic [...]