<![CDATA[Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women.]]>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

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(www.smithsonianmag.com)

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/5ebf8414-920e-483e-885f-4280c0df142e/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-women.RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 22:33:30 GMTSat, 18 Apr 2026 08:52:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:07:34 GMT]]>@svavar @gutenberg_org Well yes. Like missing out on a female Gauss, and on a female Einstein

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How the French Mathematician Sophie Germain Paved the Way for Women in Science and Endeavored to Save Gauss’s Life

“The taste for the abstract sciences in general and, above all, for the mysteries of numbers, is very rare… since the charms of this sublime science in all their beauty reveal themselve…

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The Marginalian (www.themarginalian.org)

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The female mathematician who changed the course of physics—but couldn’t get a job

(Emmy) Noether's Theorem may be the most important theoretical result in modern physics.

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Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

> At one meeting of the faculty senate, frustrated again in his attempts to get Noether a job, he [David Hilbert] famously remarked, “I do not see that the sex of a candidate is an argument against her admission as Privatdozent. After all, we are a university, not a bathing establishment.”

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116425860988657336https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/martinvermeer/statuses/116425860988657336Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:07:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:06:42 GMT]]>@joergba
Sehr unwahrscheinlich. LLMs können sich nicht selber bauen. Wenn wir Computing an LLMs auslagern, dann stagniert bestenfalls die Entwicklung. Ich seh dann aber eher alles so lange laufen, bis was kaputt ist und kein LLM es reparieren kann, weil die Menschen den Skill nicht mehr haben. Dann haben wir einfach gar keine Computer mehr, bis jemand das wieder "Erfindet".

Bevor es dazu kommt, platzt die Marketingblase, "KI" wird dann so alltäglich werden wie Blockchain oder NFT-Bildchen und die Investoren jagen den nächsten Hype hinterher auf der Jagt nach 15+% Return on Investment.
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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/momo/statuses/116425621683542121https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/momo/statuses/116425621683542121Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:06:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:53:20 GMT]]>@gutenberg_org lol - wonder who the photographer was, they all seem to be scowling at them. They are not impressed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ottaross/statuses/116425569079594323https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ottaross/statuses/116425569079594323Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:53:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:49:20 GMT]]>@gutenberg_org
I agree with you because the first computer programmer was a woman "Ada Lovelace"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MagnusIdode/statuses/116425553397428062https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/MagnusIdode/statuses/116425553397428062Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:49:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:48:35 GMT]]>@gutenberg_org Yet again we have men achieving on the backs of women who did all the fundamental tasks but rarely received the recognition.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116280604530938388/statuses/116425550424650459https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116280604530938388/statuses/116425550424650459Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:48:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:48:54 GMT]]>@gutenberg_org Und zukünftig werden wieder Humanoide als Computer Arbeiten , Menschenähnliche KI Roboter.

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