AnitaB.org, the organization that runs the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, is having monthly online meetups for Portland, OR.
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I want to make sure you don't miss the opportunity to virtually connect with other AnitaB.org Portland community members on Thursday, 2/8 at 12:00 p.m. PT!
As part of a new monthly series (happening on the second Thursday of each month), we want to invite you to collaborate with others, share ideas and grow your local network. Meet other members, ask questions, and learn how to get more involved in growing the Portland community.
Humans are allergic to change,” Grace Hopper once said. “They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."
Have you heard of Hedy Lamarr? Her work was foundational to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and cellphones. She wanted to help the Navy during World War II and had an idea for their radio guided torpedoes to resist jamming. She funded the work to implement her idea and patented it. And she did all this as a side project from her real career. Makes me think I need to do more with my side projects.
Next week is the Grace Hopper Conference. If your employer matches charitable giving please use it to help send more attendees to this conference to network and learn. Look for AnitaB.org.
CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.
So #GraceHopper is very directly responsible for some major innovations in the way we use computers.
But if you see other posts about her today, you are likely to see a few things attributed to her that she is not responsible for. Let me explain.
It is true that on September 9, 1947, Hopper or a member of her team pulled a moth from one of the relays in Harvard’s Mark II computer and taped it in their logbook. But she did not invent the terms “bug” or “debugging.”