Sharla Boehm: The Programmer Whose Code Underpins the Internet

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May 14, 202626:35Science & Medicine

Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from UCLA before channeling her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the Rand Corporation, she built a ground-breaking simulation, originally conceived to stre...

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