> On Aug 26, 2024, at 11:12 AM, Christian Liendo via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/
Nice, thanks!
My wife and I still remember attending a lecture by Grace Hopper at DEC. For a
while she, and a handful of other early computer pioneers, was a DEC employee
and traveled widely delivering lectures on her work.
A detail we both remember well is her way to let the audience understand the
small time units that computers work with. She showed us a foot-long piece of
wire and said "This is a nanosecond". (I just worked out the corresponding
visualization for a picosecond: a grain of salt. Hm...)
paul
