From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Grace Hopper
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 07:04:45 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1812090700220.52810@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-08 20:04 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-12-09 3:31 ` ron minnich
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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