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The word computer was originally used (circa 1900's) to describe a person whose job it was to compute.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jshaw/pick.html
"Pickerings Harem" was a group of women computer's who translated astronomical data recorded on photographic films into tables of data in standardized units. Being a "computer" was a job typically performed by women.