{"id":11760,"date":"2011-03-02T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=11760"},"modified":"2013-01-07T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:22:57","slug":"top-secret-rosies-the-femaile-computers-of-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/top-secret-rosies-the-femaile-computers-of-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=11776\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11776\" title=\"188064_299701171124_1246715_n\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/188064_299701171124_1246715_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/188064_299701171124_1246715_n.jpg 180w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/188064_299701171124_1246715_n-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><em><\/em><\/a>150 Columbia<br \/>\nUniversity of Oregon<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">a<\/span><br \/>\nIn 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Screening of \u201cTop Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII\u201d and a discussion with filmmaker LeAnn Erickson<\/p>\n<p>LeAnn Erickson is an associate professor, Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, and has been an independent video and filmmaker for more than 20 years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1941, soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would become human \u201ccomputers\u201d for the U.S. military. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, the women worked round-the-clock shifts creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied success. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was invented to aid the Army\u2019s ballistic calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers. \u201cTop Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII\u201d will share this untold story of the women and technology that helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, Science Program to Inspire Creativity and Excellence (SPICE), the <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/uowgs\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">UO Women in Graduate Science<\/a>, and the UO Women in Computer Science.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 3<br \/>\nMiddle School Workshop<br \/>\nWillamette Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 Columbia University of Oregon a In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age. Screening of \u201cTop Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/top-secret-rosies-the-femaile-computers-of-wwii\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-11760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-research-interest-groups","tag-rosies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11760"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15360,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760\/revisions\/15360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}