From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Subject: [TUHS] Grace Hopper
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 12:31:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VR1i0dM70P19YuQc1iJzB3wyG1pgBLMN8_AJ2vYUSry2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I attended a lecture by Admiral Hopper ca. 1981 at DEC's software
engineering facility in Nashua NH. She used the
micorsecond/nanosecond demonstration as part of a prediction of the
end of Moore's Law, and the eventual need for parallel processing to
make further gains in computing speed. She drew another analogy: in
the 19th century, if you wanted to haul a larger load, you didn't
breed bigger and bigger horses; you hitched up several horses as a
team. She was quite the visionary.
She handed out nanoseconds as souvenirs after the talk. I still treasure mine.
-Paul W.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-09 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-08 23:26 Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 0:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-09 0:39 ` Mike Markowski
2017-12-09 3:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 10:04 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-09 17:31 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2017-12-09 20:03 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-09 18:03 ` arnold
2017-12-09 23:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 23:41 ` [TUHS] Origin of "bug" (was: Grace Hopper) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-12-10 0:30 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-10 3:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-08 20:04 [TUHS] Grace Hopper Dave Horsfall
2018-12-09 3:31 ` ron minnich
2018-12-09 16:19 ` arnold
2017-12-09 1:08 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-12-09 2:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 2:47 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-09 2:47 ` Dan Cross
2016-11-27 11:20 Rudi Blom
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