From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Grace Hopper
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 19:31:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKNGA6163c4CeguZxVHEn0p_y0TARYhogeNbq_QQ=-=1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1812090700220.52810@aneurin.horsfall.org>
I got to meet her a couple times. I got a nanosecond from her twice
and lost both of them. One story she told was of navigating tokyo
using an international language ... Cobol.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:06 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> We gained Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on this day in 1906; known as "Amazing
> Grace", she was a remarkable woman, both in computers and the Navy. She
> coined the term "debugging" when she extracted a moth from a set of relay
> contacts from a computer (the Harvard Mk I) and wrote "computer debugged"
> in the log, taping the deceased Lepidoptera in there as well. She was
> convinced that computers could be programmed in an English-like language
> and developed Flow-Matic, which in turn became, err, COBOL... She was
> posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 by Barack
> Obama.
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-09 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-08 20:04 Dave Horsfall
2018-12-09 3:31 ` ron minnich [this message]
2018-12-09 16:19 ` arnold
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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
2017-12-09 20:03 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-09 18:03 ` arnold
2017-12-09 23:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-11-27 11:20 Rudi Blom
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