We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube (arstechnica.com)

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Hopper's famous 1982 lecture on "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People," has long been publicly unavailable because of the obsolete media on which it was recorded. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) finally managed to retrieve the footage for the National Security Agency (NSA), which posted the lecture in two parts on YouTube.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Part 1

Part 2

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

One of the few giants upon whose shoulders we all stand.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

If anyone ever deserved a tribute song by They Might Be Giants, it's this lady.

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Wait did they do one?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

No, not yet, but they should!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

I know facts about the sun from They Might Be Giants!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

I know which city used to be Constantinople, thanks to They Might Be Giants!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

I think we should maintain a state where this video isn't available to watch since we've always done things this way.

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024

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