Tag: Grace Hopper
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Meet Grace Hopper, the Pioneering Computer Scientist Who Helped Invent COBOL and Build the Historic Mark I Computer (1906-1992) | Open Culture
Technology, Rasmussen College lists six “Assumptions to Avoid” for women who want to enter the field of computer science. I couldn’t comment on whether these “assumptions” (alleged misconceptions like “the work environment is hostile to women”) are actually disproved by the commentary. Source: Meet Grace Hopper, the Pioneering Computer Scientist Who Helped Invent COBOL and…
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Grace Hopper on Letterman – YouTube
The lady in this video, Grace Hopper, was a Rear Admiral in the Navy and worked on the very first computer. She is often called “the mother of Cobol”. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article about her.