• The West Computers (West Area Computing Unit, West Area Computers) were the African American, female mathematicians who worked as human computers at the...
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    Dorothy Vaughan (category West Area Computers)
    Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise...
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    effort, and who came to supervise the West Area Computers, a group of African-American women who worked as computers at Langley. Human computing was, at...
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    Katherine Johnson (category West Area Computers)
    Johnson worked as a computer, analyzing topics such as gust alleviation for aircraft. Originally assigned to the West Area Computers section supervised...
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  • Margot Lee Shetterly for children from four to eight years of age. West Area Computers Kathaleen Land Howell, Elizabeth (January 24, 2017). "The Story of...
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    Mary Jackson (engineer) (category West Area Computers)
    Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering...
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    Christine Darden (category West Area Computers)
    women. The latter computer pool became known as the "West Area Computers", in reference to their segregated office. The human computers performed calculations...
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    states that "computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." The design and deployment of computers and computer systems is...
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  • Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially...
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    area network (MAN) is a computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area....
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    Research Center in California. The West Area Computers were African American, female mathematicians who worked as human computers at the Langley Research Center...
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  • The East–West Shrine Bowl is a postseason college football all-star game that has been played annually since 1925; through January 2019, it was known as...
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    occurs in the more exposed and elevated areas of the North West, once again mainly the Lake District and Pennine areas.[citation needed] Source: Office for...
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    of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation 5km 3miles Ajay River Damodar River Jamuria N Raniganj N Asansol MC ECL Kenda Area Office...
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  • Kathaleen Land (category West Area Computers)
    Hidden Figures book, and Land provided several of the names of the human computers who were featured in the book and film. She is described as "the inspiration...
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  • initiatives, the adoption of computer technology in Africa remains uneven, with many areas still lacking access to computers and the Internet. Nonetheless...
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    work for free even when the computers were being paid. Even though they performed an important role, the Harvard Computers were paid less than factory...
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  • Hidden Figures (category Films set in West Virginia)
    the West Area of Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, in 1961, alongside her colleagues Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, as lowly "computers",...
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    Apple Inc. (redirect from Apple Computers)
    Mac, is Apple's line of personal computers that use the company's proprietary macOS operating system. Personal computers were Apple's original business...
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    from area code 334. In order to allow people time to reprogram electronics such as computers, cell phones, pagers and fax machines, use of the 334 area code...
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    March 23, 1998, in an area code split from area code 205. A permissive dialing period, that permitted time to reprogram computers, cell phones, pagers...
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  • ComputerWare stores, now branded ComputerWare by Elite Computers & Software in addition to the original Elite Computers & Software store located directly...
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  • of the site. The unit operating the facility is the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic Detachment (NCTAMS LANT Det) LaMoure...
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  • geographic numbering plan areas (NPAs). Each NPA is identified by one or more numbering plan area codes (NPA codes, or area codes), consisting of three...
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    and West Virginia. It is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which is the third-largest combined statistical area in the...
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  • West Coast Range, mountain range in the region British Columbia Coast Huangdao District, literally as West Coast New Area, also known as Qingdao West...
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    professional-grade films, games, and fine art from their home computers. Not only do animated images form part of computer-generated imagery; natural looking landscapes...
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    Area codes 514, 438, and 263 are telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Montreal and most of its on-island suburbs, specifically...
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    equipment, such as computers and fax machines, use of area code 205 continued in the 334 region through May 13, 1995. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises...
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    Computer Center in Menlo Park. They both were interested in maintaining a regular, open forum for people to get together to work on making computers more...
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