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Katherine Johnson performing calculations at her desk at Langley Research Center at NASA
Portrait of Ada Lovelace by Margaret Carpenter, c. 1836
Grace Hopper working on the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University, 1946
Katherine Johnson, 1966
Margaret Hamilton, 1995
Audrey Tang, 2019
Lynn Conway, 2013
Fei-Fei Li, 2024
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