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Her-Story, Then: The Harvard Computers

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Albany, NY – (Late 1800s- Early 1900s) CAN YOUR COMPUTER GIVE BIRTH, BAKE OATMEAL COOKIES, OR DANCE A MEAN VIRGINIA REEL? THE EARLIEST 'COMPUTERS" AT HARVARD COULD.
These women painstakingly performed complex calculations needed to process data from those images. Their work helped determine the positions and composition of stars.