Happy New Year! We took two weeks off over the holiday period to relax and recharge. Now, we’re back and ready for a big year! 

Here is the first episode of Anecdotally Speaking for 2019! This year, we’re excited to hear more stories from guests all over the world who have completed our training programs. But before we do, we’d like to share a few stories we've discovered and rediscovered over our short break. 

In this episode, Mark shares the story of Dorothy Vaughan, a mathematician who worked as a ‘human computer’ for NASA during the 1960s. When NASA installed their first IBM mainframe computer, Dorothy feared she and her team would soon become redundant, but predicted NASA's need for a programming team. She taught herself the FORTRAN programming language, then taught it to her team, who became NASA’s programming team. The true story features in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi.