Onkel Neal
11-11-16, 09:09 AM
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/do-you-know-grace-hopper/
Computer history is often thought of in terms of hardware. We think of systems that took up entire laboratory floors, rows of wires and input switches — but we’re less interested in the people that did the work and made the big leaps.
Like many people who were around at the time of the conflict, Grace Hopper had her life changed irreversibly by World War II.
By the age of 35, she had already accomplished more than most. She held a Ph.D from Yale University, her dissertation had been published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, and she had recently been promoted to assistant professor in her teaching role at Vassar College.
Then the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. An estimated 2,403 Americans were killed, and a further 1,178 were injured. The United States of America would be drawn into World War II in the aftermath — and Hopper would throw herself into the effort.
Computer history is often thought of in terms of hardware. We think of systems that took up entire laboratory floors, rows of wires and input switches — but we’re less interested in the people that did the work and made the big leaps.
Like many people who were around at the time of the conflict, Grace Hopper had her life changed irreversibly by World War II.
By the age of 35, she had already accomplished more than most. She held a Ph.D from Yale University, her dissertation had been published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, and she had recently been promoted to assistant professor in her teaching role at Vassar College.
Then the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. An estimated 2,403 Americans were killed, and a further 1,178 were injured. The United States of America would be drawn into World War II in the aftermath — and Hopper would throw herself into the effort.