NASA’s ‘human computer’: Meet the woman who calculated the future of spaceflight without machines

Annie Easley began as a ‘human computer’, performing complex calculations by hand before electronic systems took over. She later became a programmer at NASA, contributing to propulsion and energy ...
Tech Times

Brain Computer Interface Technology Could Change the Way People Use Keyboards and Screens Forever

Explore how brain computer interface technology and advanced brain-computer interfaces are transforming digital interaction, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

New Partnership Illuminates Hidden Record of NASA’s Human Computers

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...
Nature

Human-Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field that explores the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use. Traditionally rooted in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...
Nature

Human-Computer Interaction in Virtual Environments

The field of Human-Computer Interaction in virtual environments represents a dynamic interdisciplinary area where advances in computer science, psychology and design converge to create immersive and ...