2-1: "Hidden Figures"

I think it is pertinent to cite the catchphrase of Auguste Gusteau (character from Ratatouille Disney film) "Anyone can cook". Now, why I start the entry of this blog with that catchphrase, the reason is simple in the film Hidden Figures the director show to all of us that anyone, any person (it does not matter its race, the skin color, the nationality) can do any task in this world.

Specifically, the movie told us the story of 3 black women that works at the NASA as colored computer machines, then this woman starts to grow up in the field. One of them, her boss encourages her to study engineer (she had all the knowledge and expertise of an engineer but the simple fact that she was black she did not have the right to study in a school of white people in order to attend the courses in order to become a NASA engineer.

The second of them, she was working as manager of the colored computer machine, she asked to her employer to be the manager of that area (she was working like that, but she was not having the payment and the loans of that job). One day she saw the IBM 7090, and she knew that the days of the colored computer machine were counted, she saw a huge opportunity in order to not being replaced by that computer. She went to the library and took a book of Fortran language in order to program the IBM computer. She learns how to program that computer and then she starts to teach the rest of the girls working with her in the colored computer machines. One day NASA needed a lot of people that known how to program that thing and then the opportunity that she was waiting came and all the girls in that area started programming the IBM 7090 in order to get a rocket in the terrestrial orbit.

Last but not least, the last woman was a genius of math and algebra. She had all the necessary knowledge in order to be part of the NASA task group that their task was to bring up a human to the terrestrial orbit but with maths. At first it was very difficult to her working there; all was new, and the racism was huge, but she was the best of the whole group. The time passed by and she do her job splendid until the arrival of the IBM 7090, at this point it was useless having her in that task team.

The day of the launching came, all the things were going well until the team started doubting on the results of the IBM then she was needed to corroborate the calculations of the IBM machine (it was asked by the astronaut aboard that he was not going to keep going if she does not corroborate the data).

So with this, we can see that Auguste Gusteau was not wrong with its catchphrase, so we need, as engineers, always to have in mind that anyone, it does not matter who the hell is, its skin color, its religion, etc. ALL PEOPLE CAN PROGRAM.

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