Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions could

by Diana Turnbow

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/04/06/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-womenhere-are-six-places-where-human-computers-built-modern-science/

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Ankita Sood, Christine Seeman, Justin Castilla & Lisa Lee have Spotlight Sessions this July at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#LangChain #DeepAgents #SubAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSource #EmergingTechnology #MedicalAI #AIPatterns #SoftwareCraftsmanship #TechConference #ARIAComponents #Angular #FrontEnd #Nebraska #UI #UX #WomenInSTEM #womenintech #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

Erissa Duvall, Abbey Perini, David Handlos & Lindsey Hruby present more Sessions at Nebraska.Code() this July.

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#Technology #Innovation #Accessibility #WCAG #A11y #POUR #Metrics #SystemMonitoring #MilitaryTech #WomenInSTEM #Software #Data #WomenWhoCode #Nebraska

Various things on my She-EO desk 🤭🙂‍↔️

I live in organised chaos.

What’s on yours? ⬇️💬

Thanks to Girl Power Marketing (LinkedIn & Instagram) for the template!

#business #womeninbusiness #organisedchaos #meme #womeninstem #entrepreneurship

Eiffel Tower to gain symmetry with addition of women’s names

Women will join men in being honored on the Paris icon. The inspiration for the gender parity came from student and Eiffel Tower tour guide Benjamin Rigaud.

by Toni Feder

https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/eiffel-tower-to-gain-symmetry-with-addition-of-womens-names

A brochure with information about each of the women scientists is available here:
https://www.femmesetsciences.fr/_files/ugd/10ca83_3838bd19a41a4e83927cfc8fe0f50404.pdf

#womeninstem

Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA - 🧵

#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #mastoArt