When her mother gave Christine Mann a doll, she cut it open to see how it talked. When her brother broke the brakes on her bicycle, 5-year-old Christine fixed them with a coat hanger and a pair of pliers.
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The ‘Hidden Figure’ you still don’t know. She’s from Monroe
When her mother gave Christine Mann a doll, she cut it open to see how it talked. When her brother broke the brakes on her bicycle, 5-year-old Christine fixed them with a coat hanger and a pair of pliers.
‘Hidden Figures’ and the true NASA stories behind the movie – CNET
The women who helped pioneer space travel have rocketed into the public eye thanks to the acclaimed movie ” Hidden Figures “. We spoke to NASA’s chief historian to learn more about the remarkable true story of these pioneering mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists, and to explore how the film dramatises their struggles.
Mathematically optimizing traffic lights in road intersections
Traffic modeling has been of interest to mathematicians since the 1950s. Research in the area has only grown as road traffic control presents an ever-increasing problem.
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‘Hidden Figures’ is about people, not mathematics
From the hidden pages of history second-time director Theodore Melfi has bookmarked a true story about three African-American women who helped save the space program back in the ’60s. “Hidden Figures” is based on a same-named non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly.
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Launches Science-as-a-Service and…
This has enabled the Institute to offer and more effectively manage scientific computing at scale, or “Science-as-a-Service,” to their own researchers and to biosciences start-ups co-located at a newly-opened research facility on the Wellcome Genome Campus. Based in Cambridge, England, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a global center of excellence for genomic discovery, and collaborates with start-ups, pharmaceutical enterprises, governments and other research centers.