07.08.08

Grace Hopper and the length of a nanosecond

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:03 am by David Kellogg

Grace Hopper sat in the back of my head for years. I remember someone from long ago telling a crowd that everyone could receive a nanosecond of wire. The wire is about a foot long. Then she brought out a millisecond. That was impressive. Ms. Hopper held a resume of impossibilities. She was a college professor who joined the Navy at age 37, wrote the manual for the Mark I, became the mother of COBOL and all programming languages, became a Rear Admiral and DEC scientist. I found her again on David Letterman’s show in the early Eighties.

1 Comment »

  1. Lee said,

    August 19, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    Question:

    When downloading pdf files in POW, they are corrupted and unreadable. Originals in htdocs folder of POW are A-Ok. Tried several different machines, same result.

    Options?

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