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Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) (yewtu.be)
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Videos (part 1 and part 2) just released for public viewing this week.

Grace Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She was also part of the team that discovered and coined the term “bug” in relation to a computer defect. She didn’t invent the term herself directly, but she was part of the team that did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

She talks about it in this video.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This was one of the best things I've watched in a long long time. Thank you for sharing. I was 2 years old when this was recorded, but much of her talk resonates as urgently current and valuable.

For others who might be interested in similar, Douglas Englebart and his team discuss many similar aspects of looking forward toward where we are headed, through the lense of history.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Part two

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

'all Navy', but when you reach inside, you find a 'Pirate' dying to be released."

Jay Elliot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks, that was good!