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Day 4 - Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
When I asked Larry to help me with my list, he said I should add Grace Hopper.
Grace Hopper was a computer programming pioneer and she was also a Rear Admiral in the US Navy who retired at the ripe old age of 79.
She was a graduate of Vassar and Yale and taught math at Vassar. She tried to join the Navy during WWII but was too old at 34 so she joined the reserves. She began working on the Mark I Computer… and she pioneered computing after that. She is called Grandma COBOL for being instrumental in the development of that computer language.
My husband worked for a short time with a man who had worked with Admiral Hopper and said she was most impressive.
You ca read more about her here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/amazing-grace-hopper-computer-programmer/
And this book as well:
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series Book 4) by Kurt W. Beyer.
Here she is middle aged:
And here is Amazing Grace along with one of her quotes.
An anecdote: I saw this story on Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel.
While she was working on a Mark II Computer at a US Navy research lab in Dahlgren, Virginia in 1947, her associates discovered a moth that was stuck in a relay; the moth impeded the operation of the relay. While neither Hopper nor her crew mentioned the phrase "debugging" in their logs, the case was held as an instance of literal "debugging." For many years, the term bug had been in use in engineering. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
When I asked Larry to help me with my list, he said I should add Grace Hopper.
Grace Hopper was a computer programming pioneer and she was also a Rear Admiral in the US Navy who retired at the ripe old age of 79.
She was a graduate of Vassar and Yale and taught math at Vassar. She tried to join the Navy during WWII but was too old at 34 so she joined the reserves. She began working on the Mark I Computer… and she pioneered computing after that. She is called Grandma COBOL for being instrumental in the development of that computer language.
My husband worked for a short time with a man who had worked with Admiral Hopper and said she was most impressive.
You ca read more about her here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/amazing-grace-hopper-computer-programmer/
And this book as well:
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series Book 4) by Kurt W. Beyer.
Here she is middle aged:
And here is Amazing Grace along with one of her quotes.
An anecdote: I saw this story on Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel.
While she was working on a Mark II Computer at a US Navy research lab in Dahlgren, Virginia in 1947, her associates discovered a moth that was stuck in a relay; the moth impeded the operation of the relay. While neither Hopper nor her crew mentioned the phrase "debugging" in their logs, the case was held as an instance of literal "debugging." For many years, the term bug had been in use in engineering. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.