![]() ![]() ![]() Laura Puaca at the Ferguson Center box office at 75. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation of the Humanities grant for her research into the history of women in computing. With special support from the Division of Student Affairs and additional sponsorship from Trible Library the College of Arts and Humanities the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences and the Departments of Communication English Fine Art and Art History History Mathematics Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology and Theater and Dance. Shetterly biographies four women in the book, three of whom worked as human computers during an age when computer technology had not yet rendered computational work by hand obsolete. Margot Lee Shetterly is a writer who grew up in Hampton Virginia, where she knew many of the women in Hidden Figures. Presented by the Hampton Roads Oral History Project and Women's and Gender Studies Program. ![]() National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Officials and employees - Biography, United States. ![]() The event is free and open to the public, but registration for tickets is required: Publication date 2016 Topics United States. Guests who bring copies of Hidden Figures can have them signed by the author following the lecture. Join us for this special engagement as Bestselling Author, Margot Lee Shetterly discusses her bestselling book. ![]()
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