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Re: Grace Hopper
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Beryl Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
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Beryl Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
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I don't know if it's urban legend, but I remember hearing a story about a fly getting stuck inside one of her early computer tubes, hence the term "bug".
Beryl


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>From: Raphael Rosen <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Dec 9, 2013 2:14 PM
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>Subject: Re: Grace Hopper
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>ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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>Thanks for those links.
>
>Raphael
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>Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Eileen Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Grace Hopper was the Computer History Museum's first Fellow Award
>> recipient. They interviewed her biographer in 2010:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tld9C4o_qwQ
>> 
>> And here's Grace herself:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra2kt1Mpg8
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>> Eileen Campbell
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>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Eric Siegel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Never knew who she was until todays google doodle
>>> 
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
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>>> Amazing woman, love her illustration of what a billionth of a second is.
>>> 
>>> Eric
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