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Old 06-27-2015, 08:09 AM   #23
DanaC
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce View Post

Margaret Hamilton, like Grace Hopper, was in the right place at the right time. But more than that, had the vision to see opportunity to stake out territory in new fields of technology and go for it.

Stumbled across this recently whilst trying to find an interview with Jonah Nolan ( for which I am still searching) about the surveillance state:



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Podcast: Grace Hopper Led America into the Information Age

October 16, 2009


Author Kurt Beyer describes the life and legacy of inventor and computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper.


Kurt Beyer is the author of Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. In this podcast, Beyer goes beyond the myth to find the real Grace Hopper, a US Naval officer, computer scientist, and inventor who was at the forefront of the post-WWII computer revolution.

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age is part of the Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation from MIT Press.

http://invention.si.edu/podcast-grac...nformation-age



Really interesting podcast.
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