Keywords: SEACComputer 024.jpg NBS and the U S Patent Office had at the time of this photograph begun investigating a program called HAYSTAQ for automatic searching of chemical literature It was expected to reduce the time and effort required in searching through a file of patents Ethel Marden is pictured at the control console of SEAC where some of the experimental work on HAYSTAQ was performed National Institute of Standards and Technology 1959-08-14 National Institute of Standards and Technology PD-USGov-NIST PD-USGov SEAC computer Women at work in the 20th century People using computers in the 1950s |