MIT Libraries "Sisters in Making" exhibit, 2024

"Sisters in Making" exhibit, 2024
Photo: Maia Weinstock

An image from the exhibit "'Sisters in Making: Prototyping and the Feminine Resilience,' on display at MIT's Rotch Library [March-April​​​​ 2024], spotlights the many women who built the core rope memory and magnetic core memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer at MIT." --MIT News, 6 March 2024

“Sisters in Making: Prototyping and the Feminine Resilience,” on view in Rotch Library, explores the unseen women, often referred to as “weavers,” who were instrumental to the development of computers. The exhibit, the work of Deborah Tsogbe SM '23 and Soala Ajienka, a current architecture graduate student, spotlights the women who built the core rope memory and magnetic core memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer.

"New exhibits showcase trailblazing MIT women," MIT Libraries, MIT News, 6 March 2024

Timeline: 2020s
School: School of Architecture and Planning
Department: Architecture
Career: EngineeringGovernment & LawScienceTechnology
Object: Image
Collection: Exhibits, NASA, Rising Voices 1995-Present, Students, Women