Thanks for the interesting article, Marty. This was especially cool:
"Admiral Grace Murray Hopper received many awards and commendations for her
accomplishments. In 1969, she was awarded the first ever Computer Science
Man-of-the-Year Award from the Data Processing Management Association."
The first computer science man of the year was a woman! &;-)
Priscilla
At 11:07 PM 10/8/00, Marty Adkins wrote:
>You bring back some fond memories -- I was privileged to hear retired
>Rear Admiral Grace Hopper speak on two occasions, during her later years
>when DEC was so savvy as to hire her as a consultant. One of her talents
>was the ability to make computing and communications seem real to others.
>During her days as a DEC spokesperson, she was known to hand out physical
>"bits". In the first talk I attended, she handed each of us short pieces
>of wire which she explained were "nanoseconds". In the next talk, she
>gave us plastic-wrapped packets of what appeared to be salt and pepper
>-- picoseconds, she exclaimed.
>
>Somewhere in my physical archives I still have both of these, and do
>treasure them, to the puzzlement of others...
>http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
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