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usonian

(15,409 posts)
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:20 AM Aug 2024

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 OP
Met her twice. Girard442 Aug 2024 #1
What a great site! TommyT139 Aug 2024 #2
Amazing Grace lpbk2713 Aug 2024 #3
Met her a few times unc70 Aug 2024 #4
Fascinating life story. crosinski Aug 2024 #5

lpbk2713

(43,202 posts)
3. Amazing Grace
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 10:52 AM
Aug 2024


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
Thu Aug 15, 2024, 11:00 AM
Aug 2024

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.

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