> “When we said that sounds really exciting, like James Bond spy stuff, she said no, it wasn’t at all like that, it was very humdrum. We were operating machines night and day and it was incredibly boring work most of the time.<p>> “You just had to stand by the machines, you had to concentrate when you were programming it and make sure it was set up correctly, and the rest of the time you were there watching it, waiting for it to come up with something.”<p>Maybe I'm a bit dim...but I've just never gotten over how otherwise-intelligent-seeming people keep defaulting to "the real world is like Hollywood's fantasy spectacles".<p>OTOH, we live in a world where "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect" merits its own <i>Wictionary</i> page. So I probably am at least a bit dim...
I wonder what she did after the war given she was talented with logic and programming? She couldn't have used her work as a reference, but she still had experience for a good use.
Recently watched the Imitation Game as prep for a visit this weekend to the Museum of Computing located at Bletchley Park: <a href="https://www.tnmoc.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.tnmoc.org/</a>
Its crazy awesome how many revolutions in computing were made of women of (notable) obscurity (meaning their inventions/contributions were not as widely publisized as they should have been.<p>FFS Madame Curie should have inspired a heck-ton more STEM females...<p>But, there are some foundational corner-stones of computing and technology that have been created by females.
Nitpick but dead announcements usually don't include other than the name: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died</a><p>Also, RIP, a true heroine.<p>Also, also, black top, please, dang.