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• "Grace Hopper: The Woman Who Changed How We Code and Test." ISC(2) Blog, March 8, 2023.

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My brain interpreted the "Grace" as "Grass".  
(Showing my age, there.)

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Here is another brief, but annotated, biography from Yale, where she received her Master's and PhD in math, and a residential college has been named for her.

Biography of Grace Murray Hopper

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Added a few connections.

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Awesome woman of history for those of us in the tech and programming industries!

Thank you for sharing!

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She's one of the people my brother (who has probably forgotten more about computers than I have learned) greatly respects.

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Admiral Hopper is one of my heroes.

She first used the term "bug" for a computer problem - because the problem she fixed had been caused by an actual bug. My late husband had a nanosecond that she handed out to those attending a lecture by her (represented by a piece of wire, the length equal to the space traveled in a nanosecond). Wish he had labeled it!

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hmm. Just read her bio - seems I misremembered about "bug" (bio refers to "debugging"). And perhaps I'm misremembering about the nanosecond too & Bear only told me about it (but... the bio says she showed the nanosecond when a keynote speaker at an event in late 1980s, and I'm pretty sure Bear was talking about a seminar that he attended before we met in 1984, while he was still in the Air Force).

Anyway. She's still one of my heroes and has been for decades :D

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I'd heard the bug story before, but haven't seen it attributed to Grace Hopper. Certainly happened during her time frame though.

She might have given the nanosecond reference at more than one lecture/conference.