Day: February 20, 2020

“I think it’s very important to get more women into computing. My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men.” –

Karen Spärck Jones

Melba Roy Mouton

Was one of NASA’s “human computers” in the early space program. A graduate of Howard University from Virginia, Mouton headed a group of these “human computers” that tracked satellites. Furthermore, Mouton, was also a computer programmer at NASA. Her programs “predicted aircraft locations and trajectories.” (Women & Tech Project, 2014).

More on NaSA’s “Human Computers”:

• History Channel
• Smithsonian
• The New Atlantis

1929 – June 25, 1990

References:

• Famous Women in History: Melba Roy Mouton. (2017). Entity. Retrieved from https://www.entitymag.com/famous-women-in-history-melba-roy-mouton/
• WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 1950S. (2014) Women & Tech Project. Retrieved from https://womenandtechnologyproject.com/tag/1950s/