The Harvard Computers were a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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some women offered to work for the Harvard Computers for free. Many of the women astronomers from this era were computers with possibly the best-known being...
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Williamina Fleming (category Harvard Computers)
She became one of the founding members of the Harvard Computers, an all-women cadre of human computers hired by Pickering to compute mathematical classifications...
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Edward Charles Pickering (category Harvard University alumni)
findings. This consequently also strengthened and contributed to Harvard Computers. In 1882 he started his appeals for international variable star observations...
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modern computers that are documented as Harvard architecture are, in fact, modified Harvard architecture. The original Harvard architecture computer, the...
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (category Harvard Computers)
Leavitt also began working as volunteer assistant, one of the "computers" at the Harvard College Observatory. In 1902, she was hired by the director of...
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Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) Irwin Shapiro 1983–2004 Charles Alcock 2004–2022 Lisa Kewley 2022–present Harvard Computers Sears Tower – Harvard Observatory...
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Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of...
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Women in computing (redirect from Women in Information and Computer Sciences)
was predominantly done by women; significant examples include the Harvard Computers, codebreaking at Bletchley Park and engineering at NASA. After the...
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The Harvard Mark II, also known as the Aiken Relay Calculator, was an electromechanical computer built under the direction of Howard Aiken at Harvard University...
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The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in...
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Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers. Sobel was born in The Bronx, New York...
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Antonia Maury (category Harvard Computers)
Beta Lyrae. Maury was part of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and human computers at the Harvard College Observatory. Antonia Maury...
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The Harvard architecture is a computer architecture with separate storage and signal pathways for instructions and data. It is often contrasted with the...
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(in the context of microcontrollers). Harvard Mark I Harvard Mark II Harvard Mark III List of vacuum-tube computers Research, United States Office of Naval...
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found at the limit of the large scales of the classical level. Today, a computer performs millions of arithmetic operations in seconds to solve a classical...
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electronic stored-program digital computers as 'von Neumann machines'". Hennessy and Patterson wrote that the early Harvard machines were regarded as "reactionary...
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Annie Jump Cannon (category Harvard Computers)
College. In 1896, Cannon became a member of the Harvard Computers, a group of women hired by Harvard Observatory director Edward C. Pickering to complete...
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David J. Malan (redirect from David Malan (computer scientist))
(/meɪlɛn/) is an American computer scientist and professor. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, and is best known...
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available to astronomers, which led to the rise of human computers, famously the Harvard Computers, to track and analyze the data. Scientists began discovering...
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Florence Cushman (category Harvard Computers)
the Harvard College Observatory as an employee of Edward Pickering, observing and classifying stars. Florence was one of the “Harvard Computers” who...
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The Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (SHARC) is a high performance floating-point and fixed-point DSP from Analog Devices. SHARC is used...
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week by October. Harvard Mark I Harvard Mark II Harvard Mark IV Howard Aiken List of vacuum-tube computers "Yesterday's News". Harvard Magazine. Circulation...
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digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discrete values of both time and amplitude (digital signals). Analog computers can have...
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Anna Winlock (category Harvard Computers)
American astronomer and human computer, one of the first members of female computer group known as "the Harvard Computers." She made the most complete...
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Harvard-Westlake School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school in Los Angeles, California, with about 1,600 students in grades...
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The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is the engineering school within Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and...
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constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers...
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Stellar classification (redirect from Harvard Spectral Sequence)
discovering 10 novae and more than 200 variable stars. With the help of the Harvard computers, especially Williamina Fleming, the first iteration of the Henry Draper...
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non-graduates of Harvard, see the list of Harvard University non-graduate alumni. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University....
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