Meet the Woman Who Revolutionized Computer Science

[usonian]

You computer junkies know without looking that it's Grace Hopper.
Pictorial at the link, and you can download a 30MB PDF of it there.

https://www.knowledgebytes.tech/p/meet-woman-revolutionized-computer-science


Lots more info at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Cross-posted in education, because kids need to know about this computing pioneer.

[Girard442]

1. Met her twice.

Starstruck. And I'm never starstruck.

[TommyT139]

2. What a great site!

Thanks for the link.

[lpbk2713]

3. Amazing Grace

She's a legend. The story goes she was the first one to come up with the term "computer bug" when she actually saw an insect causing a problem in a main frame.

[unc70]

4. Met her a few times

Somewhere I have one of her nanoseconds and a bag of picoseconds.

I wrote my first compiler in the 1960s. Did several more commercial compilers over the following 20 years. Hopper is one of my heroes.

[crosinski]

5. Fascinating life story.

Thanks for sharing.