Dr. Sarah Valentine
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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But if you had a college degree or a master's degree, you were usually trained to be a linguist or a cryptanalyst or, you know, something a little higher level.
These women had that knowledge.
educational background, but because of the segregation and the times, they were only trained for these lower-level jobs.
She was amazing.
Iris Carr was a school teacher in Texas in the 1940s.
And when the war began, she realized the kind of job she was in, she would not be able to have benefits or retirement because, again, in the Jim Crow South, Black teachers couldn't pay into retirement.
So she decided to try her luck in Washington, D.C.,
and drove herself.
This is a time when few Americans had cars.
She drove herself to Washington, D.C., got a job in the federal government, eventually ending up at the agency, and worked her way up through the ranks from that traffic processing division into a position where she could really help others improve their careers.
Yes.
which was very difficult for someone like her at the time to do.
They are really at the foundation of it.
They were basically the GPU of this operation, the general processing unit, and they were doing it all manually.
They were
being worked as if they were machines.
And it was just at the time that the agency was realizing we have to automate these processes because even with the vast amount of intelligence they were producing, the agency still wanted more.
There was just an endless kind of hunger and need for this data.
And so they helped to train a program.
Again, it was a top secret, early machine learning program
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