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  2. Barbara Canright - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Canright (born St. John, 1919–1997) was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who was the first female mathematician to be employed. [1] Canright joined the team in 1939 as a human computer, which required "Teams of people who were frequently used to undertake long and often tedious calculations; the ...

  3. List of films about computers - Wikipedia

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    Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002) Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017) Commodore 64; Macintosh 128K; NeXT Computer; Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019) Valley of the Boom (2019) The IT Crowd (2006-2013)

  4. VLC media player - Wikipedia

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    VLC supports many audio- and video-compression-methods and file-formats, including DVD-Video, Video CD, and streaming-protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and can transcode multimedia files.

  5. The Rocket Girls - Wikipedia

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    Ling followed in the footsteps of Macie Roberts as a supervisor for the female division of human computers. She recruited and trained females that were proficient in mathematics and physics. Her legacy includes diversifying the female populus at JPL and continuing the excellence of female workers at NASA and JPL. [4]

  6. Barbara Paulson - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Jean Paulson (née Lewis; April 11, 1928 – February 26, 2023) was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and one of the first female scientists employed there. [1] Paulson began working as a mathematician at JPL in 1948, where she calculated rocket trajectories by hand. [2]

  7. Hidden Figures - Wikipedia

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    Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...

  8. Macie Roberts - Wikipedia

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    As JPL expanded from rocket technology to missile technology the lab's director, Frank Malina promoted long time computer Macie Roberts to supervisor of the expanding division of female computers. [3] Macie "Bobby" Roberts was the original supervisor of the human computers at NASA, later dubbed the rocket women. She believed that it would be ...

  9. Category:Films about computing - Wikipedia

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    It has scientific, engineering, mathematical, technological and social aspects. Major computing fields include computer engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, information technology and software engineering. [1