Annie Easley (1933-2011), US mathematician, computer scientist, and rocket scientist, who started work at NACA (the predecessor to NASA) as a human co
Annie Easley (1933-2011), US mathematician, computer scientist, and rocket scientist, who started work at NACA (the predecessor to NASA) as a human computer. NASA and NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) used human computers in aerospace and flight research to transcribe and handle raw data. As technology progressed, both human and electronic computers were used to process and handle data. Easley worked primarily on the Centaur rocket stage. She was one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA. Photographed at the Lewis Research Center, Ohio, USA.
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