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A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: The Weather Myth

Lost Women of Science

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Is Clarie the Computer Scientist to Thank for Your Smart Phones Weather?

This idea that clarie was the computer scientist to thank for your smart phones weather ap is spreading from the forbes and smithsonian articles. There is absolutely no evidence as just that she was part of the group that went down to run the calculations, and therefore she clearly was not the person who was working hands on. While clarie may have advised the team or reviewed the code the team wrote, it seems unlikely that she was one of the main programmers. And there's little evidence indicating that she was actually on location with the aniac to run the weather simulations.

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