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Nov. 26, 2024

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

We're reaching into the vault to bring you a lecture delivered to the NSA workforce in 1982 by then-Navy Captain Grace Hopper entitled, "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People." Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and mathematician, and a pioneer of computer programing. Among her accomplishments, Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. She ultimately reached the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, and in 2016 she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the nation's highest civilian honor. Her insights on leadership and her visionary predictions still hold weight today, more than forty years later.

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