Dear Reader,
Welcome back! I had a fantastic Thanksgiving week, and hope all my American readers did as well. Here’s a snapshot of our dinner table for 23 which we set up in our family room.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper is a special hero to me. As a computer science major in the 1970’s, female role models were few and far between. In addition to all her other accomplishments, she was instrumental in the development of COBOL, and I had a COBOL job programming for UCI’s Registrar back in 1972. So, in a way, she helped me pay for college. 🙂
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Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was a U.S. Naval officer and a pioneering computer programmer. Among other accomplishments, Admiral Hopper was instrumental in the development of the computer programming language COBOL. Here’s another fun fact: she was the first to use the term “debugging” for removing glitches (or bugs) from computer instructions. The very first computer bug was, in fact, a moth. Read more about “Amazing Grace” at this week’s web picks.
60 Minutes: Grace Hopper: She Taught Computers to Talk
“Believe it or not, the world of computers didn’t begin with Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Back in 1983, Morley Safer sat down with 76-year-old U.S. Navy Captain Grace Hopper who, at the time, had the distinction of being the oldest woman in the Armed Forces. But that was far from the only reason she merited a 60 Minutes profile.” Visit to watch Safer’s four-minute interview with Hopper.
Amazing Women in History: Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper
This one-page Amazing Women biography about “Amazing Grace” includes lots of quotes and photos, as well as a bibliography. “Her belief that programming languages should be as easily understood as English was highly influential on the development of one of the first programming languages called COBOL. It is largely due to Grace Hopper’s influence that programmers use “if/thens” instead of 1s and 0s today.”
Bio: Grace Hopper
After receiving her PhD in mathematics from Yale in 1934, Hopper became an associate professor at Vassar. During World War II, she left Vassar and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve, where she was assigned to a computer project at Harvard University, and learned to program. Visit this Biography channel site to read more about Hopper’s career and “amazing” accomplishments.
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Quote of the Week
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” ~~ Sydney J. Harris ~~ (14 September 1917– 8 December 1986) American journalist. Read more Sydney J. Harris quotes.
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