She was personable, funny, and inspirational. I considered that to be a privilege to have her speak!
Posted on 12/21/2017 9:06:45 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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I attended her presentation at the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia. Brings back memories.
She had a most formidable presence.
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She spoke at one of my kids’ graduation back in the mid 80s-——a remarkable woman.
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Really smart people can explain things well. Richard Feynman also comes to mind.
If someone can’t explain things, then they probably are not as smart as they may think they are.
Instructors like her not only teach, they inspire. Love what you do, have a sense of humor, and pass it on.
Now bloatware is the norm.
She was personable, funny, and inspirational. I considered that to be a privilege to have her speak!
Love Richard Feynman...
If you ever get a chance, his book “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” is educational and hilarious to read!
I know he and I would likely have not seen eye to eye on many issues, but I respect the hell out of him, because he did make an effort to think his positions all the way through.
I would liked to have met her.
I remember having all of 4k on the mainframe at school to run my System 360 assembler code in.
Oh, and I still have the little green pamphlet with the Sys 360 opcodes listed in it :-)
When I was a COBOL computer programmer back in the 70’s I used to joke about having a pinup of her in my cubicle.
Except for us nerds, few back then knew of her accomplishments in the field of digital computers. She was a unique lady for the time. Women of today should aspire to accomplish half of what she did during her lifetime.
Yes, I had to admit to the grandkids that I was once a nerd; that I knew Grace Hopper, COBOL programming, and EBCDIC was my second language. I even admitted to carrying a shirt ‘pocket protector’ full of pencils and pens and a HP or TI pocket calculator. Those were the tools of the trade for mainframe COBOL programmers at that time.
RIP Grace
I was lazy in high school but the only class I really enjoyed was physics, taught by Mr. Larson.....He made it interesting
I never met her, but I passed within a few feet of her in a corridor in the Pentagon back in the 1980s. The person I was with noticed that I had seemed surprised to see someone that old in uniform, and explained who I had just seen. I was impressed then, and still am today.
I met her in 1965.
The 60 Minutes interview with Grace Murray Hopper
https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-60-minutes-interview-with-grace-murray-hopper/
Yep - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems. It descended from the code used with punched cards and the corresponding six bit binary-coded decimal code used with most of IBM’s computer peripherals of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
When I started my STEM career, digital computers were new and very rare. Data and programs were punched on paper tape or punch cards, or even typed into computers in assembly level code. Thanks to Grace’s COBOL compiler, programming moved up to a higher level. It became faster and easier because of its English-like structure.
Still there were those pesky hexadecimal memory dumps where programmers had to tread when debugging those really bug f*cked programs of yesteryear (Today’s programmers never make mistakes or debug anymore - right?).
Anyway, Grace is gone, COBOL is dead, and the future’s not looking too good for me either. I now return you to the topic of Grace Hopper.
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