[rlmorel]

This woman spoke at my graduation...enjoyable speaker, and very talented too...

All this stuff about women in the sciences is complete and total BS. If women want to go into the sciences, there is not only nothing to stop them, there are scads of benefits to encourage them.

This "Women are discouraged from entering the sciences" is the Via Dolorosa of the feminist movement...or at least just one of them.

I am sick and tired of seeing it. Sciences is one of the few areas where you can still be judged on your ability, and faking it is difficult in some aspects and impossible in others. If you can't do the math, you can't do it. If you can't code...you can't do it.

[agere_contra]

Nice post.

IIRC she invented the term ‘computer bug’, from a literal encounter with one.

[FourPeas]

I’m green with envy. I never had the pleasure of hearing Adm. Hopper speak live. I had several opportunities, but always learned about them too late to take advantage.

[dfwgator]

This woman spoke at my graduation...enjoyable speaker, and very talented too...

Do you still have your "nanosecond"?

[John O]

Phenomenal woman! And an incredible speaker also. I’ve heard her speak a couple times.

The Navy was so fond of her they brought her back from retirement twice and named a ship after her.

Somewhere, in my many boxes of things, I still have one of her “nanoseconds”

[GraceG]

She is truly “Amazing Grace” and she didn;t need no damned social justice to get where she got, she proves that if you want something you have to pursue it and while doing so you make the obstacles a badge of honor rather than an excuse.