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Computer Programmer and Mathematician Josephine Jue

Portrait of Josephine Jue smiling as she poses with one of NASA Johnson Space Center's mainframe computers.
Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years.

Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years. Of her notable contributions, in the mid-1970s she oversaw development of the HAL/S compiler for the Space Shuttle.

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