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    The Harvard Computers were a team of women working as skilled workers to process astronomical data at the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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  • modern computers that are documented as Harvard architecture are, in fact, modified Harvard architecture. The original Harvard architecture computer, the...
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    some women offered to work for the Harvard Computers for free. Many of the women astronomers from this era were computers with possibly the best-known being...
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    Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first...
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    Williamina Fleming (category Harvard Computers)
    She became one of the founding members of the Harvard Computers, an all-women cadre of human computers hired by Pickering to compute mathematical classifications...
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    Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These programs enable computers to perform a wide range of...
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  • The Harvard Mark II, also known as the Aiken Relay Calculator, was an electromechanical computer built under the direction of Howard Aiken at Harvard University...
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    The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in...
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    Edward Charles Pickering (category Harvard University alumni)
    findings. This consequently also strengthened and contributed to Harvard Computers. In 1882 he started his appeals for international variable star observations...
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    Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) Irwin Shapiro 1983–2004 Charles Alcock 2004–2022 Lisa Kewley 2022–present Harvard Computers Sears Tower – Harvard Observatory...
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