Main Impact:
Annie was one of the first african-american computer sciencists to work at nasa. She was a leading member of the team that developed the software for the centaur rocket stage which helped launch future space shuttles. She worked on communication, military and weather satellites, and the 1997 cassini space probe to saturn. Annie helped develop and implement computer code that analyzed alternative power technologies that has been the basis behind electric vehicles.
Life
April 23, 1933 - June 25, 2011
She is still alive and is currently 88 years old.
Majored in Pharmacy for 2 years before seeing an ad about women working on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA - before NASA]. Annie was hired as a 'computer' in 1955, and earned her B.S. in Mathematios in 1977 at Cleveland State University. She retired from NASA in 1989.
Scources
Computer Science - Nasa
Nasa History
Computer Science Page