Hidden Her-story: The Top Secret Rosies of World War II March 18, 2009

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Women's History Month Program
Speaker: LeAnn Erickson
In 1942, only months after the United States entry into WWII, a secret military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike recruiting Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would become human 'computers' for the US Army.
These women worked round-the-clock shifts creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied victory. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was invented to aid ballistic calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers.
Professor LeAnn Erickson discusses "Top Secret 'Rosies': The Female 'Computers' of WWII," a documentary project currently in post-production that will share this untold story of the women and technology that helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age.

Organized by BDPA Philadelphia

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