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Grace Hopper has been one of my heroes for years. The very smart guy who taught me COBOL back in 1982, in addition to teaching us to use binary searches to get free drinks at the bar, taught us the big role of that tiny woman. Both of those lessons stayed with me. The other day I was explaining her importance to a couple of my peers, who are youngsters and hadn't heard of her before.
Pop on over to youtube and watch her in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ .
These days we hear a lot about the lack of women in technology. That sentence is woefully incomplete. It should always end in "at the moment." Remember Grace Hopper, the women working on ENIAC, and at Bletchley Park and consider where we would be today if we were applying all of our technical resources instead of somewhere around half.
We are wasting a whole lot of nano-seconds.
Pop on over to youtube and watch her in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ .
These days we hear a lot about the lack of women in technology. That sentence is woefully incomplete. It should always end in "at the moment." Remember Grace Hopper, the women working on ENIAC, and at Bletchley Park and consider where we would be today if we were applying all of our technical resources instead of somewhere around half.
We are wasting a whole lot of nano-seconds.
