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usonian

(13,540 posts) Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:20 AM Aug 15

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 15 OP

Met her twice. Girard442 Aug 15 #1

What a great site! TommyT139 Aug 15 #2

Amazing Grace lpbk2713 Aug 15 #3

Met her a few times unc70 Aug 15 #4

Fascinating life story. crosinski Aug 15 #5

Girard442

(6,387 posts)

1. Met her twice.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:32 AM

Aug 15

Starstruck. And I'm never starstruck.

TommyT139

(681 posts)

2. What a great site!

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:39 AM

Aug 15

Thanks for the link.

lpbk2713

(43,201 posts)

3. Amazing Grace

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:52 AM

Aug 15

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

(6,322 posts)

4. Met her a few times

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2024, 11:00 AM

Aug 15

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

(559 posts)

5. Fascinating life story.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2024, 06:48 PM

Aug 15

Thanks for sharing.

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