In what year did Dorothy Vaughan, one of the women featured in the 2016 non-fiction book, Hidden Figures, become acting supervisor of the West Area Computers?
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Hidden Figures (book) Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. The biographical text follows the lives of Human Computers such as Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three mathematicians
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Dorothy Vaughan Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an African American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at the center.
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Dorothy Duncan Dorothy Duncan (1903 – April 22, 1957), American writer and artist, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1946 for her book "Partner in Three Worlds".
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Mary Welsh Air Chief Commandant Dame Ruth Mary Eldridge Welsh, DBE, ED (née Dalzell; 2 August 1896 – 25 June 1986), known as Mary Welsh, was the third Director of the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), from August 1944 to November 1946. She died, aged 89, in 1986.
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Carson Williams Carson Williams is an electrical engineer from Mason, Ohio who is noted for his light shows using Christmas lights affixed to and around his house. The lights are programmed and synchronized to turn on and off with music using a computer application and set of controllers from the Light-O-Rama company. For each minute of animation synchronized to music, he spent approximately one hour to sequence 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights. His notability suddenly increased when a popular clip was widely circulated on the Internet in late 2005 showing a recording of one of his shows from 2004, accompanied by the track "Wizards in Winter" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. An urban legend even developed that it was not a video of an actual light display, but faked on a computer.
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Dorothy Eck Dorothy Eck (January 23, 1924 – September 23, 2017) was an American politician in the state of Montana. She served in the Montana State Senate from 1980 to 2000. Eck was also active in feminist movements including the League of Women Voters and served as a delegate to the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention.
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Wendy Sherman Wendy Ruth Sherman (born 1949) is Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group and also Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State, from September 2011 to October 2015. She has formerly worked as a social worker, the director of EMILY's list, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Counselor of the United States Department of State and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State and North Korea Policy Coordinator. In the latter role, she was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs. She was also the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.
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Valerie Barr Valarie Barr is an American computer scientist and endowed chair in the department of Computer Science at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She is known for her work with women in computing.
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Kathy Watanabe Kathy Watanabe is a member of the Santa Clara, California city council. She was appointed on March 7, 2016 by a vote of 4-2 by the then current council members, then won the city council election in November 2016 with 48% of the vote to keep her seat. There has been some criticism that the Santa Clara city council remains all white, however she is also the only councilmember representing the Northside of the city. She is on the Downtown Revitalization Plan, Ethics, and Marketing committees.
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Kathleen Gough Eleanor Kathleen Gough Aberle (16 August 1925 – 8 September 1990) was a British anthropologist and feminist who was known for her work in South Asia and South-East Asia. As a part of her doctorate work, she did field research in Malabar district from 1947 to 1949. She did further research in Tanjore district from 1950 to 1953 and again in 1976, and in Vietnam in 1976 and 1982. In addition, some of her work included campaigning for: nuclear disarmament, the civil rights movement, women's rights, the third world and the end of the Vietnam War. She was known for her Marxist leanings and was on an FBI watchlist.
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Rosalyn Baxandall Rosalyn Fraad "Ros" Baxandall, (June 12, 1939 – October 13, 2015), was an American historian of women's activism and an active New York City feminist.
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Dorothy Cantor Dorothy Cantor is an American psychologist and a former president of the American Psychological Association.
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Hookers for Hillary Hookers for Hillary is a semi-formal organization of Nevada-based sex workers who support Hillary Clinton's candidacy in the 2016 United States presidential election. The group, which claims a membership of 500 prostitutes, is not registered with the Federal Elections Commission as a political action committee and does not, therefore, directly provide political donations. Its members, instead, evangelize support of Clinton to their clients and have, in some instances, reportedly offered enhanced sexual services to existing customers in exchange for direct donations to Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Dorothy Rogers Tilly Dorothy Rogers Tilly (June 30, 1883 - March 16, 1970) was an American activist from the progressive era until her death. She was a noted activist in the Women's Missionary Society (WMS), Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, Southern Regional Council, Fulton-DeKalb Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and Fellowship of the Concerned (FOC). She was also appointed to the President's Committee on Civil Rights in 1946 by Harry S. Truman.
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Helen Peterson Helen Peterson (native name: Wa-Cinn-Ya-Win-Pi-Mi, August 3, 1915-July 10, 2000) was a Cheyenne-Lakota activist and lobbyist. She was the first director of the Denver Commission on Human Relations. She was the second Native American woman to become director of the National Congress of American Indians at a time when the government wanted to discharge their treaty obligations to the tribes by eliminating their tribal governments through the Indian termination policy and forcing the tribe members to assimilate into the mainstream culture. She authored a resolution on Native American education, which was ratified at the second Inter-American Indian Conference, held in Cuzco, Peru. She created a model program for summer school programs on ethnic studies, which was used throughout the United States. In 1986, Peterson was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and the following year, her papers were donated to the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives.
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Dorothy Dinnerstein Dorothy Dinnerstein (April 4, 1923 – December 17, 1992) was an American academic and activist, best known for her book "The Mermaid and the Minotaur" (1976) (also published in the UK as "The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World"). Drawing from elements of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, particularly as developed by Melanie Klein, Dinnerstein argued that sexism and aggression are both inevitable consequences of child rearing being left exclusively to women. As a solution, Dinnerstein proposed that men and women equally share infant and child care responsibilities. Her theories were not widely revered at the time they were published. Dorothy Dinnerstein was also a feminist, expressing her position by stating that “it's easier for women than for men to see what's wrong with the world that men have run".
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Judy Chicago Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen, July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces, which examine the role of women in history and culture. By the 1970s, Chicago had coined the term "feminist art" and had founded the first feminist art program in the United States. Chicago's work incorporates stereotypical women's artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with stereotypical male skills such as welding and pyrotechnics. Chicago's most well known work is "The Dinner Party", which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. "The Dinner Party" celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history and is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork. Other notable art projects by Chicago include "International Honor Quilt", "The Birth Project", "Powerplay", and "The Holocaust Project".
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Dorothy Kostrzewa Dorothy Kostrzewa (née Chung; August 17, 1928 – January 11, 2013) was a Canadian politician. She is notable as the first Chinese-Canadian woman to hold political office in Canada when she was elected to Chilliwack City Council in 1969. She served on city council for 33 years making her the longest serving city councillor in British Columbia.
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The Women's Conference The Women's Conference (also known as the California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan US organization and annual forum for women. The event first began in 1986 as a California government initiative for working professionals and women business owners. Since 2004, The Women's Conference has become a large event at which people such as the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters, Jane Fonda, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Sarah, Duchess of York, Tim Russert, Deepak Chopra, Tom Brokaw, Queen Rania of Jordan, Maureen Dowd, Sandra Day O'Connor, Thomas Friedman, Anna Quindlen, and Billie Jean King have spoken.
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Dorothy B. Porter Dorothy Louise Porter Wesley (May 25, 1905 – December 17, 1995) was an African-American librarian, bibliographer and curator, who built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University into a world-class research collection.
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Dorothy Kenyon Dorothy Kenyon (February 17, 1888 – February 12, 1972) was a New York lawyer, judge, feminist and political activist in support of civil liberties. During the era of McCarthyite persecution, she was accused of being affiliated with 28 communist front organizations. Kenyon was a charismatic speaker, and she regularly travelled around the U.S. lecturing about civil liberties, the law, and women's equality.
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Peter J. Denning Peter James Denning (born January 6, 1942) is an American computer scientist and writer. He is best known for pioneering work in virtual memory, especially for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which addressed thrashing in operating systems and became the reference standard for all memory management policies. He is also known for his works on principles of operating systems, operational analysis of queueing network systems, design and implementation of CSNET, the ACM digital library, codifying the great principles of computing, and most recently for the book "The Innovator's Way", on innovation as a set of learnable practices.