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From: mike.ab3ap@gmail.com (Mike Markowski)
Subject: [TUHS] Grace Hopper
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 19:39:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1ee4493-cf92-5f1c-8dc8-47cecbfeffb7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712091022311.35694@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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On 12/08/2017 06:26 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> (At the risk of being flamed because it's not strictly Unix...)
> 
> 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.  [...]

Coincidentally, I work in Hopper Hall, named after her, and complete 
with a nice bronze plaque with her likeness in the lobby.  There's a 
short blurb on her about 2/3 down the page at:

https://www.army.mil/article/66745/new_campus_built_on_tradition_of_excellence

Mike Markowski


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-09  0:39 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 [this message]
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
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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