The term 'computer' used to refer to humans who performed computations such as calculating ballistics of rockets.
Used in Chap. 23: page 367
Links:
IMDb: Hidden Figures – the film- IMDb: Hidden Figures – the film
- williamcollinsbooks.co.uk: book: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. Margot Lee Shetterly (2017).
- nasa.gov: NASA: From Hidden to Modern Figures
- retrocomputing.stackexchange.com: StackExchange: What did the "programs" that "human computers" executed look like?
More recent reCAPTCHA – human creating training data for machine learning