* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! @ 2017-12-09 23:02 Dave Horsfall 2017-12-09 23:08 ` Ralph Corderoy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-12-09 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw) As promised :-) Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron), was born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer programmer and a highly independent woman, she saw the potential in Charles Babbage's new-fangled invention. J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer, he not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF series. Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! 2017-12-09 23:02 [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! Dave Horsfall @ 2017-12-09 23:08 ` Ralph Corderoy 2017-12-09 23:33 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Ralph Corderoy @ 2017-12-09 23:08 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi Dave, > Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday? Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! 2017-12-09 23:08 ` Ralph Corderoy @ 2017-12-09 23:33 ` Dave Horsfall 2017-12-09 23:37 ` Ralph Corderoy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-12-09 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw) On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem Yeah, but all the same, two famous people in the same industry would surely lengthen the odds somewhat... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! 2017-12-09 23:33 ` Dave Horsfall @ 2017-12-09 23:37 ` Ralph Corderoy 2017-12-10 2:23 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Ralph Corderoy @ 2017-12-09 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw) > > Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem > > Yeah, but all the same, two famous people in the same industry would > surely lengthen the odds somewhat... Yeah, you're pulling my leg. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! 2017-12-09 23:37 ` Ralph Corderoy @ 2017-12-10 2:23 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-12-10 2:23 UTC (permalink / raw) On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> Yeah, but all the same, two famous people in the same industry would >> surely lengthen the odds somewhat... > > Yeah, you're pulling my leg. :-) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists OK, it was worth a try :-) (I'm a born stirrer, and I blame my parents for that.) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana!
@ 2017-12-11 4:59 Rudi Blom
2017-12-11 5:49 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Rudi Blom @ 2017-12-11 4:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
Anyone on TUHS who made the list?
Greeting from your Dutch uncle rubl
For all the sound advise you don't want to hear.
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:23:13 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana!
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Yeah, but all the same, two famous people in the same industry would
>> surely lengthen the odds somewhat...
>
> Yeah, you're pulling my leg. :-)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists
OK, it was worth a try :-) (I'm a born stirrer, and I blame my parents
for that.)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! 2017-12-11 4:59 Rudi Blom @ 2017-12-11 5:49 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-12-11 5:49 UTC (permalink / raw) On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Rudi Blom wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists > Anyone on TUHS who made the list? I've seen Ken Thompson post a few times... Well, somebody using that name, anyway :-) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! @ 2018-12-10 1:56 Dave Horsfall 2018-12-10 2:22 ` Nemo 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2018-12-10 1:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron), was born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer programmer and a highly independent woman, she saw the potential in Charles Babbage's new-fangled invention. J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer, he not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF series. Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday? -- Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Grace Hopper and J.F.Ossana! 2018-12-10 1:56 Dave Horsfall @ 2018-12-10 2:22 ` Nemo 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Nemo @ 2018-12-10 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Horsfall; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society On 09/12/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote (in part): > > Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday? Are there at least 23 computer greats? > > -- Dave > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
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