gaby_waldContre-Amiral Grace Hopper en 1982, toujours d'actualité sur l'informatique, la data...
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MULHERES NA COMPUTAÇÃOMês das Mulheres
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Grace Hopper (1906–1992) foi pioneira da computação. Matemática e oficial da Marinha dos EUA, participou da criação do primeiro compilador e contribuiu para a linguagem COBOL, usada em sistemas empresariais. Seu trabalho abriu caminhos para gerações de profissionais da tecnologia.
#GraceHopper #MulheresNaComputacao #WomenInComputing #HistoriaDaComputacao #Tecnologia #DivulgacaoCientifica #EADUNIG #eadunig #cienciadacomputacao #analise #gti
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
ARGVMI~1.PIFYep, and computers only process letters by mapping them to numbers.
There was a time when it was thought that computers' ability to process letters was so limited that there was no way letters could be used to program them.
Nobody told that to #GraceHopper, though, who wrote the first #compiler.
“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.”
Wisdom in SpaceIt is much easier to apologize than to get permission.
-- Grace Hopper (commenting on surviving in a bureaucracy)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Action #Bureaucracy #Permission
You manage things, you lead people.
-- Grace Hopper
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Leadership
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
robrichhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/nick-watson-90038a71_in-1952-grace-hopper-had-an-idea-that-every-activity-7414613829965492224--aiI - #GraceHopper is a #programming legend. Great article https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-watson-90038a71.
Grace Hopper's Compiler Revolutionized Programming | Nick Watson posted on the topic | LinkedIn
In 1952, Grace Hopper had an idea that every expert knew was stupid. She wanted to write code in English words. Then have the computer translate it into machine language automatically. Her colleagues were emphatic: computers do arithmetic. They don’t understand words. This cannot work. Grace built it anyway. She called it a compiler. You’d write something approaching human language, and it would convert into the ones and zeros the machine actually needed. When she showed it to the programming community, they didn’t celebrate. They rejected it. “Computers can’t write programs,” they said. “It’s not possible.” She would later recall: “I had a running compiler, and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.” The resistance wasn’t technical. It was psychological. Programmers in the 1950s were an elite priesthood. They wrote in machine code—cryptic strings that took years to master. This difficulty made them indispensable. Made them special. Grace was proposing to let ordinary people program computers. The priesthood wasn’t threatened by impossibility. They were threatened by accessibility. In 1959, she helped create COBOL. The establishment sneered. This wasn’t “real” programming. It was for business people who couldn’t handle proper code. Grace didn’t care. COBOL solved problems that needed solving. Here’s the part nobody expected: COBOL outlived almost everything. Those elegant languages the purists loved? Mostly gone. In 2020, when pandemic unemployment systems crashed, governors went on television begging for COBOL programmers. The systems were still running code written in the 1970s. Grace retired from the Navy at 79 as a Rear Admiral—the oldest serving officer at the time. She died in 1992. In 2016, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Technology exists to serve humans—not to make humans serve technology. | 83 comments on LinkedIn
David Grayless#OnThisDay in 1992, #GraceHopper, American #computerscientist and US Navy #admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, died at 85.
#RIP 🕊️
#RIP 🕊️
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-- Grace Hopper
