POFR production release v1.3.2 named " Katherine Johnson ". The name of every POFR release honors the contribution of women in Computer Science and Mathematics. This is a minor version upgrade release and contains improved functionality plus bug fixes.

Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.[1][2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".[3]

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POFR production release v1.3.1 named "Grace Hopper". The name of every POFR release honors the contribution of women in Computer Science and Mathematics. This is a minor version upgrade release and contains improved functionality plus bug fixes.

Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral.[1] One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

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POFR production release v1.2.3 named "Mary Jackson". The name of every POFR release honors the contribution of women in Computer Science and Mathematics. This is a bug fix release. Due to the severity of the bugs of previous releases, all users are advised to switch immediately to release v1.2.3.

Mary Jackson (née Winston;[1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer. She analyzed data from wind tunnel experiments and real-world aircraft flight experiments at the Theoretical Aerodynamics Branch of the Subsonic-Transonic Aerodynamics Division at Langley.[6] Her goal was to understand air flow, including thrust and drag forces, in order to improve United States planes.[6] Jackson worked as an engineer in several NASA divisions: the Compressibility Research Division, Full-Scale Research Division, High-Speed Aerodynamics Division, and the Subsonic-Transonic Aerodynamics Division.[11] She ultimately authored or co-authored 12 technical papers for NACA and NASA.[11][14][15][16] She worked to help women and other minorities to advance their careers, including advising them how to study in order to qualify for promotions.[17]

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POFR production release v1.2.1 named "Hedy Lamarr". The name of every POFR release honors the contribution of women in Computer Science and Mathematics. This is a bug fix release.

Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) (November 9, 1914[a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. The principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth and GPS technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.[11][12][13] This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.[9][14]

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POFR production release v1.1.0 named "Lorinda Cherry". The name of every POFR release honors the contribution of women in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Lorinda Landgraf Cherry (November 18, 1944 – February 2022[1]) was an American computer scientist and programmer. One of the original members of the Unix team at Bell Labs, she developed many mathematical tools and utilities for text formatting and analysis, and influenced the creation of others. She pioneered many concepts around graphics, little languages, and text processing.

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The initial production release of POFR v1.0.0 named "Nicole-Reine Lepaute". The name of every POFR release honors the contribution of women in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Nicole-Reine Lepaute (née Étable de la Briere; also known as Hartense Lepaute or Hortense Lepaute; 5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Joseph Lalande predicted the return of Halley's Comet by calculating the timing of a solar eclipse and constructing a group of catalogs for the stars.[1]

The asteroid 7720 Lepaute is named in her honour, as is the lunar crater Lepaute. She was also a member of the Scientific Academy of Béziers.

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