During World War II, the Army hired women to hand-calculate ballistics trajectories for artillery firing tables. But these differential calculus equations took over 2 dozen hours by hand, and the Army needed thousands of them. In an attempt to speed up the calculations, the Army agreed to fund the creation of a truly experimental machine – the world’s first all-electronic, general-purpose, programmable computer with 18,000 vacuum tubes. When the huge Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) surprisingly worked, the Army selected women mathematicians to program it to compute the ballistics trajectories they knew so well. That there were no programming languages or even computer manuals did not stand in their way. Their program helped launch ENIAC to fame as the world’s first modern computer, but the women were never introduced or credited. Join law professor, author, documentarian, and former CITP Visiting Research Fellow Kathy Kleiman to discuss her new book Proving Gr
In June 1930, during the 4th Pan-American Congress of Architects, the male architect and multi-artist Flavio de Carvalho, a leading name in Brazilian Antropofagia movement and a programmatic bachelor himself, presented a thesis entitled “The city of the naked man”. In it, he launched a severe attack on what he called the Christian and capitalistic concepts of family, marriage and private property, concluding with an appeal to the American delegates to “take off their civilized masks and show their anthropophagous tendencies” repressed by colonization. José Lira's talk will take his own house, built on the outskirts of São Paulo in the 1930s, as an erotic-political apparatus to the staging of an insatiable American man. Understood both as bachelor home and a living “Experiencia”, it will explore its strengths and restraints in the forging of an ethno-historical utopia. ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER José Lira is a Visiting Research Scholar with the Program in Latin American
Just weeks after launching the new Sekulow Brothers Podcast on September 12th, it is already becoming a huge hit with audiences on the Salem Podcast Network.
/PRNewswire/ Just weeks after launching the new Sekulow Brothers Podcast on September 12th, it is already becoming a huge hit with audiences on the Salem.