"I had a manager once who was wonderful in almost all ways… really well-meaning, but I always made him nervous. ... he never quite knew what to make of me. When I did something really clever, he was smart enough to understand its importance, but then he’d look at me all confused and say 'How did *you* think of that?' He meant well…"
Radia Perlman (The Atlantic; 2010)
Achievement: African American who worked for NASA as a "human computer". Contributed to numerous programs as a computer scientist, including critical work on the Centaur rocket project.
Achievement: She and her colleagues wrote the code for the world’s first portable computer. Became an expert in systems programming contributing to the Apollo program; was Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016).
Heroes of the space age : incredible stories of the famous and forgotten men and women who took humanity to the stars by Achievement: First female President at Harvey Mudd College (CA); previously Dean of Applied Arts and Science at Princeton University. Known for her advocacy of women in stem fields.
Achievement: Born Hedwig Eva Kiesler, the actress co-patented a "secret communications system" in 1942; the system would direct torpedoes to their targets by preventing radio waves from being intercepted by the enemy. The "frequency hopping" technology developed by Lamarr and her partner later led to the development of Bluetooth and GPS technologies.
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