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Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published

Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published

The “long lost lecture” by Adm. Grace Hopper has been published by the NSA. (Note that there are two parts.)

It’s a wonderful talk: funny, engaging, wise, prescient. Remember that talk was given in 1982, less than a year before the ARPANET switched to TCP/IP and the internet went operational. She was a remarkable person.

Listening to it, and thinking about the audience of NSA engineers, I wonder how much of what she’s talking about as the future of computing—miniaturization, parallelization—was being done in the present and in secret.

Posted on August 29, 2024 at 11:58 AM •
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