
Women Astronomical Computers – Project PHaEDRA
Women Astronomical Computers – Project PHaEDRA
The Natural History Society of Maryland Presents: Computers used to be human. Many of those humans were women. The goal of Project PHaEDRA(Preserving Harvard’s Early Data and Research in Astronomy) is to transcribe and classify the contents of notebooks belonging to the human computers Harvard hired to catalog stars, identify variables, and interpret stellar spectra. […]