计算员(英语:Computer或human computer)是电子计算机发明以前,专门从事数学计算工作的人员,他们通常要分组进行冗长的计算。这项工作起源于17到18世纪的天文学计算。在二次大战期间,许多女性成为计算员,参与了包括曼哈顿计划在内的许多计算工作,这些计算员有许多后来从事早期计算机科学的发展。
参考文献
- Grier, David Alan, The Human Computer and the Birth of the Information Age, Joseph Henry Lecture, Philosophical Society of Washington, May 11, 2001.
- Grier, David Alan, When Computers Were Human, Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-691-09157-9.
外部链接
- Early NACA human computers at work (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), photograph, October 1949.
- The Age of Female Computers (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), by David Skinner
- Sonoma University (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Wellesley Archive.is的存档,存档日期2012-12-11
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