Keynote: Grace Murray Hopper: The Original Pirate Hacker
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Claims that Grace Murray Hopper builds the first operational compiler in 1952, writes the Mark I manual, invented the patch to fix punched tape, popularizes the term computer bug, and repeatedly borrows (and sometimes steals) machine time and office furniture are all documented; COBOL owes lineage to her FLOW-MATIC work and she later validates military compilers. The talk mixes archival anecdotes, taped interviews and on-site research for the documentary Born with Curiosity, showing what was built and how well it actually worked.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:34Grace Hopper
- 4:28Early Trailer
- 5:30Grace Murray Hopper
- 7:04The First Digital Computer
- 8:17Culture Jamming
- 9:11History
- 12:40Top Secret Mission
- 15:30First Computer Manual
- 17:40Trivia
- 20:52Pirate Grace
- 23:03Fuck with people
- 25:30Crafty
- 26:27First Compiler
- 28:11COBOL
- 30:54nanoseconds
- 34:01USS Hopper
- 35:03Interviewing Computer Pioneers
- 36:51Born With Curiosity
- 37:55Women in Computer Programming
- 41:44Self Selection
- 44:02Recruiting
- 45:18Women in Science
- 46:50What surprised you
- 49:15Grace giving away COBOL
