HISTORY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harvard Mark I, Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace
1 Oct 2016
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In the 1940s/50s the world of coding was feminized seen as tedious, dull work for women to do the war also created a labor shortage which required more women to apply for these jobs. Many women were involved in the state sector vs the private sector. One of the rst creators of harvard mark i. Worked for nasa and was the primary computer programmer for the apollo mission. Pushed past the limited economic employment for women by opting to be a teacher and excelling at it to become a mathematician at the langley research center (nasa) Mathematician and researcher at the lewis research center (nasa) Systems man those manager and engineers who are at the top of the pyramid and who are in charge. Anti-systems man ) the anti-systems man would be a modern day hacker. 150 engineers are now replaced by one computer and one man operating it.
