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Meet the Woman Who Revolutionized Computer Science
You computer junkies know without looking that it's Grace Hopper.
Pictorial at the link, and you can download a 30MB PDF of it there.
https://www.knowledgebytes.tech/p/meet-woman-revolutionized-computer-science
Lots more info at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Cross-posted in education, because kids need to know about this computing pioneer.
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Meet the Woman Who Revolutionized Computer Science (Original Post)
usonian
Aug 2024
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Girard442
(6,488 posts)1. Met her twice.
Starstruck. And I'm never starstruck.
TommyT139
(905 posts)2. What a great site!
Thanks for the link.
lpbk2713
(43,202 posts)3. Amazing Grace
She's a legend. The story goes she was the first one to come up with the term "computer bug" when she actually saw an insect causing a problem in a main frame.
unc70
(6,345 posts)4. Met her a few times
Somewhere I have one of her nanoseconds and a bag of picoseconds.
I wrote my first compiler in the 1960s. Did several more commercial compilers over the following 20 years. Hopper is one of my heroes.
crosinski
(568 posts)5. Fascinating life story.
Thanks for sharing.