I met her twice. She used to come to my elementary school and give talks. She used to say her biggest fear was that if computers started thinking people would stop.
@@ryanpitasky487where do you think they got it? (not saying OP is right, but this talk and Tron came out the same year..)
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The problem isn't computers _thinking,_ it's computers and UX dark patterns _deciding_ and _manipulating,_ which has caused people to stop thinking, lose agency, and lose autonomy.
Since my time at University I am always blown away by people so deep in a topic that they speak free with no notes and explain everything clear and also with fun to keep your attention. Not many can do that
She had a script she wrote below the desk. She looks down often to recollect her position in the speech. 6:30 here for example she looks down... you can tell, heh.
It's Labor Day weekend 2024 and I just sat enraptured for 2 hours watching a 42-year old lecture on computer technology from a prescient genius. Thank you, Admiral. RIP.
She was prescient. She has such an incredibly wide snapshot of the 20th century that it gave her an oracle-like ability to sense what issues were on the horizon for the country. She’s the kind of person we should have a holiday for.
Radm. G. Hopper and Arthur C. Clarke should be held as the oracles of the future. What they proposed eventually became the stuff that our children take for granted. EOF.
I have seen a few returned servicemen speaking of their experiences on the battlefield -- and I get a sense that some part of the education system -- maybe not technical or science -- maybe their literature. (Popular classics 'Tom Sawyer', by Mark Twain or Robert Louis Stevenson or Dickens -- [not Jane Austen!] or essayists like Richard Steele and Charles Lamb -- which are like eating cornflakes with=out any milk and sugar to young people today -- can be reintroduced very gradually -- say 5 minutes per day -- or even 5 minutes per week -- as a boost flexibility and and resilience creativity.)
This lecture from Rear Admiral Hopper could have been said word-for-word in a lecture hall today and it would be just as applicable today as it was back in 1982.
I agree. We learn from the great "wizards" of old, and their knowledge is timeless. If you boil down to foundational principles that are applicable in computer science no matter what the age. Instead of trying to memorize the syntax for the latest Javascript framework, enlighten yourself with the fundamental science to get true understanding. I have always been seeking the "oldies but goldies" as some might say. For example lectures by Jerry Cain or Walter Lewin. Sadly there are few such old professors still in teaching these days at the universities, but fortunately we can find their lectures on youtube for free!
I saw her speak in Boston in 1986 at the Engineering Societies of New England's Engineers Week. She gave the keynote address at the luncheon and we got to meet her at a VIP reception. I still have my nanosecond, although it broke when I unrolled it to show somebody. I'll just cut another piece of telephone wire and nobody will be wiser -- except the readers of this comment. She certainly made an impression on me at the time, and I'm grateful the NSA was able to post this lecture. I think it is likely similar to the one I attended. Watching it today I'm blown away by her ability to see the future.
She was working as an ambassador for DEC when she came to speak at UMass/Amherst in 1977. I made it a point to hear her and, yes, I, too, have lost the nanosecond she gave me, but I still remember "a nanosecond a foot"...it's actually more like 19 inches, but it's easier to remember a foot. A very impressive person.
She gave me a nanosecond back in the early 80's in Virginia Beach at a technology conference. I had it for at least 30 years and seem to have lost it during one of my moves!
I don’t know why they were interested in me. True to form. after watching Chuck, I picked CIA. I agreed to all the law, as long as it was in a language I couldn’t read. And they rejected me in the most important exciting experience.
I’m 60 and I’m an analyst/programmer in the UK. We learnt about Rear Admiral Grace Hopper in school in the late 70s. Amazing woman. So glad she was promoted to the rank she should have had.
I worked as a consultant in Information Management for 35 years and I'm now retired, Wow this lady was massivelly ahead of her time and we still don't treat the information much better in 80% of Business's
This feels like I'm in a dream. Like this lady sat with us in the meeting room yesterday, and I'm watching the video of that meeting. She was born in 1908 and talks about how they were focusing on data processing for 30 years (in 1982!) and no attention was paid to data, the raw material, the serves the output, their product, the information. Thank you for posting this, I really didn't expect to see something like this here, keep it coming. I know it has buzzwords like NSA, but is a mandatory watch for anyone working with data. This should be a mandatory watch in schools.
Her ideas are ideal, but tools don’t work like that.. you work with what you have. That’s what people acting at the forefront are doing: making a pile of random tools and materials do something they’re not supposed to. Eventually the tools will catch up, but people have to show the path before the big money comes in to build the foundation.
Absolute national treasure and legend. I've never heard her speak. (Missed those Letterman episodes.) She's hilarious in addition to being brilliant! Thanks for posting this.
‘I’m afraid what we’ll be doing is buying hardware and writing code. What we should be doing is looking at the total flow of information in the organization, company or what have you.’ I will take this to my death.
@@myname-mz3lo what an ironic comment and a bit pednatic... the tone of whats described seems more rudimentary or fundamental than what we consider the industry standard for data analytics...
She has logical flaws, though. For example: Assuming that something that hasn't been accessed didn't need to be online was ridiculous. Contingency is real; emergencies are real.
Basically everything that becomes mainstream is done 10-15 years before.Same with ai now, some people are giving warnings now so imagine 15 years from now.
When I met Admiral Hopper it was at Atlanta Heartsfield airport in the '80s... I lit her cigarette, she admired my Zippo... she smoked Camel lungbusters, btw. She did not have a Nanosecond (short piece of wire) to give me, said she'd run out... but that's OK, the memory is with me still. I did get to tell her how much I enjoyed working in the microcomputer (controls) industry... I went on later to get a BSCS. Thanks Grace... you were the best.
The formidable Hopper is rivetting from the first and a revelation. She sports such insight, critical and analytical acumen, foresight, narrative and oratory skill, it is breathtaking. I commend those who released the footage.
My favorite part 25:26 "If any one of you says 'but we've always done it this way' I will instantly materialize beside you and I will haunt you for 24 hours, and see if I can get you to think again. And I know it works, I've already had over 70 letters thanking me for haunting people. I"LL BE THERE. We've got to accept the new things that are ahead." Especially the part where Admiral Hopper says "I'll be there" you know the Admiral means it. Rear Admiral? That's a Real Admiral right there. O7
She would have been not only great tactician in war time -- but a great inspirer of the troops -- calm and clear -- able to transmit a sense of purpose and integrity -- A real Admiral!
Not enough people are talking about how witty and funny she is. She's is able to tell these engaging and informative stories while also setting up punchline after punchline. Amazing lady.
Which is all the better because just from all the textbook info I had on her I'd be glued even if she was the most boring presenter which I have reliable information she's anything but.
I was an instructor at West Point 1985 to 1988. She came every year to talk to the Plebes. Brilliant in all respects. She always brought a sheaf of nanoseconds. It never struck me before, but her direct speaking style and dry humor absolutely parallel Richard Feynman.
I doubt anyone would refute the idea that computing lectures tend to run very dry and very boring. This woman is a master of public speaking; full of humor and prescient observations.
Rear Admiral Hopper is such a great American treasure. I certainly felt her spirit guiding me throughout my career! We're so lucky to have had her, it really just can't be overstated. 💯
She came to my attention when the German Society for Information Technology (Gesellschaft für Informatik) published a poster series of historical figures in information technology and she was one of this figures. I find it interesting acutally listening to her. Thank you & Dankeschön, for this post!
God Bless you Dr. Admiral Hopper, thank you for your immense wisdom bestowed on our generation and posterity. I am sure you already know how deeply we are in need of professors, engineers, and thinkers like yourself in the year 2024. Oh, how our nation and world mourns the loss of souls like Dr. Admiral Hopper.
Just wonderful! What a treasure of her intelligence and her contribution to the development of computer science. The creator of COBOL! And a great speaker to boot. So easy to listen to. And a true leader that anyone would be proud to work for. Grace Hopper's name is so well know in the annals of computer history. It's a treat to be able to experience her like this as well. This video was time well spent.
Couldn't agree more with all the comments about how incredibly timeless are her comments about the methods of computer systems and approach to problem solving. She is clearly an incredibly bright, funny and talented lady worthy of history, but can we also make sure the NSA gets a special thanks for putting this out. Ever since James Bamfords seminal book "The Puzzle Palace" they've been barely seen as anything except in the shadows but it takes real strength to share something historic like this. Huge thanks guys.
Rear Admiral Hopper gave an excellent lecture at the Census Bureau in Suitland Maryland back in 1981. She gave me a short piece of wire called a ‘nanosecond’. I was greatly impressed with her presentation and her career!
I had the privilege of meeting her briefly as we rode the elevator to the lobby of the highrise River House apartments in Arlington circa '85 or '86. One of a kind!
Love this Lady! "The first large-scale digital computer in the United States was a Navy computer, operated by a Navy crew during World War Two. And recently, I've been finding that I have to remind people of that because there's been a tendency on the part of a certain junior service... to try to claim credit for those early computers... and they didn't even exist yet!"
I had the honor of meeting her and talking with her before her speech at IDECUS many years ago. I still have a few nanoseconds that she gave me. She was a remarkable woman!
Glad to see this, I couldn’t even guess how many people I’ve talked too describing how impressed I was when attended one of her lectures back then and of repeated some of her sayings they had never heard or knew who she was
Wish I had met this Lady, what a treasure and a blessing for the US Navy to have access to someone with this level of foresight. Beyond impressive. I believe ARPANet was functional at this point.
@@beepbop6697 In 1982, the term “online” in computing primarily referred to being connected to a computer network or system in real time. It meant that a computer, terminal, or device was actively connected to a mainframe or a network and capable of receiving and sending data without delays. This could involve being logged into a mainframe computer from a remote terminal, participating in time-sharing systems, or accessing data storage devices directly rather than offline processing, where tasks were completed and submitted manually for batch processing.
In 1984 as a young teen I learned BASIC on an Apple II. In 1988 as a late teenager in college, I learned machine language (Hexadecimal) and later dBase programming in my electronics engineering class. The machine language (using Z80 microprocessor) was very tedious, dry, brain wracking endeavour. It didn't make sense to me. After all I used BASIC language, and was learning dBase at the time. All those Hexadecimal stuff was causing me headaches. I felt very comfortable with BASIC and dBase, with it's easy programming language in plain English. 10 Print "xyz", 20 Goto 10. A primary school kid can do that with one eye closed. Today I learned that languages like COBOL, BASIC and dBase would not be without the Great Admiral. She left a lasting legacy to mankind. She is to programming what Henry Ford is to cars. RIP Admiral Hopper.
Not an Admiral yet! Folks, most of us would not have a job if not for her! That was the best description of how and why indexes works without even trying! I am in awe! Just retired after a long IT career. Thank you ma'am.
I have a new hero. I wish I could've met her in my lifetime. The level of comprehension and foresight she saw with the field of computing is astounding. The fact she was able to affect so much change in her career is inspiring. Then going on to educate so many young minds even into her old age shows how strongly she cared for our future. It should not be forgotten. She would've been such an amazing person to talk to and get to know. Such a beautiful mind. RIP Admiral Grace Hopper
I once saw her at a university lecture series in the eighties. I thought it was going to be about computer science, but it was about more than that. I remember, to this day, her main point of her speech--“you manage things, you lead people.”
You can still learn a lot about data processing forty years later from this brilliant lady. She doesn't get the credit she deserves since she was in the NSA for so long and they tend to not say much. 🤪
An absolute legend -- she has and will always have my undying respect, admiration, and gratitude. And everything she put forth in that lecture is as apropos today as it was in 1982, even and especially the topic of standards.
Language standards have been widely adopted, though there is some dropping of things as languages evolve. However, I can still run 50-year-old mainframe FORTRAN code on a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero ... faster than on a 1980's supercomputer.
Edit: Worth every nanosecond! Remarkably prescient. Change a few words and it would be just as relevant now. What a treasure! 7:00 in and I already know the rest will be amazing. Thank you for uploading it!
Adm Hopper has always been an inspiration to me. When I was a lot younger I saw an earlier lecture where she talked about how "long" a millisecond was and so on and it changed a lot of my outlooks on things.
Her insights, practical knowledge, and wisdom are unprecedented. Here humor was spot on and timely. Everything she said over 40 years ago is still relevant to this very day, especially the bits on needing Leadership more than Managment within all industries. Hey D.C., Wallstreet, School Boards, etc. you ought to have to be required to watch this video at least once a year as a constant reminder!
In the 1970s UCLA Graduate School of management was teaching what Grace Hopper claimed was not known of. The reason we were taught was our professors had done research on the subject and had gotten corporations to take action, some of which had happened in the 1960s. Before Admiral Hopper gave this lecture I designed and implemented systems that took the value of data into account. I live Grace Hopper and the US Navy, but both have been given more credit in cybernetics than they deserve. Grace was smarter than me and much more capable, but she was also a Navy Chearleader. The attribute that Grace Hopper exceeded everyone but my father was the ability to teach people with no technical knowledge or ability in simple easy to understand ways. I could have given that lecture, but half the audience would probably have zoned out another quarter would have been overwhelmed by the full and complex description. Grace was one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century and living treasure of the United States. Go Navy!
It's amazing listening to her talk, she could've been a comedian she's so funny! Another interesting artefact of the recording process is you can hear background chatter of those who added the slates at the beginnings of the recordings in the silence! I *love* that quote "You manage *things,* you lead *people."* ❤
I can't help but wonder what Admiral Hopper would say to the likes of the Epyc or the Xeon processor. Talking here of something so extraordinary now so mundane. She was truly a remarkable woman and one who lives rent free in the back of my mind to this day. Thank you for this.
Learned about her in Cobol class my senior year in Highschool Vo Tech. Admiral Grace Hopper. Creator of the Cobol programming language. I had no clue she was this damn funny and this amazingly sharp
@The_Conspiracy_Analyst Yes, she 100% did. Google it kid. She is witty AND brilliant. Why do you think NVIDIA named one of their cards after her? Please don't say ignorant things. No excuse with Google right there at your fingertips
The wisdom she had... What she's saying that today, youngsters need a good positive leadership, it's soo truee and important. And her definition of leadership is just awesome and separating the definition of leadership from management is an awesome concept too❤🎉.. Am in love with this lady
One of the wisest people I've ever heard speak. She would absolutely recognize the modern CPUs and GPUs as descendents of what she's talking about. And the Internet is the great grand-cester of ARPANet that she used.
I’m only 10 minutes in and wow this woman is spot on. It’s too bad that todays computer programmers don’t take her advice. I think this should be a mandatory thing to watch for everyone who works in the computer business from programs to chip designers. It seems like most of today’s computer problems are caused by not knowing the value of the information!
I remember being in an airport lounge back in the early eighties and Grace Hopper was sitting across from me, asleep with a cigarette drooping out of the side of her mouth, tobacco colored spittle dripping on her uniform. She was a trooper and a tough old bird.
I met her twice. She used to come to my elementary school and give talks. She used to say her biggest fear was that if computers started thinking people would stop.
That must have been wonderful. Such a clever person taking the time to come & talk to kids. She was prophetic with the thinking comment.
pretty sure that quote is from Tron
@@ryanpitasky487where do you think they got it?
(not saying OP is right, but this talk and Tron came out the same year..)
The problem isn't computers _thinking,_ it's computers and UX dark patterns _deciding_ and _manipulating,_ which has caused people to stop thinking, lose agency, and lose autonomy.
no thats actually a quote from weizenbaum.
Wow, I was actually there in the audience that day. I never expected to see this on UA-cam! A big blast from the past for me! Thank you.
Nice
I was in the oven about to be born lol 😂
That’s pretty trippy
What were your responsibilities?
What did the air smell like back in that day?
Since my time at University I am always blown away by people so deep in a topic that they speak free with no notes and explain everything clear and also with fun to keep your attention. Not many can do that
Same! It’s intuitive for them and impressive for us
We get locked out of industry these days because honesty is bad for business.
Sleeping giants.
She had a script she wrote below the desk. She looks down often to recollect her position in the speech. 6:30 here for example she looks down... you can tell, heh.
@@intuitiveclass6401She is reading a script. Not trying to be negative.
@@dertythegrower impressive nonetheless
It's Labor Day weekend 2024 and I just sat enraptured for 2 hours watching a 42-year old lecture on computer technology from a prescient genius. Thank you, Admiral. RIP.
Best 2 hours of my weekend lol
me too!
They don't make them like her. She's a once in a century phenom. People at the agency don't hang her picture out of obligation; it's out of love.
Now you hand out nanonseconds.
Yes -- She would have been a great President or trade union leader! Inspiring.
She was prescient. She has such an incredibly wide snapshot of the 20th century that it gave her an oracle-like ability to sense what issues were on the horizon for the country. She’s the kind of person we should have a holiday for.
Radm. G. Hopper and Arthur C. Clarke should be held as the oracles of the future. What they proposed eventually became the stuff that our children take for granted. EOF.
I've never heard it better stared. Very oracle like.
The US doesn't like to have day offs to celebrate people
Wide snapshot? Anyone with access to classified military information has oracle like abilities.
@@peternotarfrancesco2614 We usually don´t celebrate people that moved to an island for the little 9 yo boys, Arthur c. Clarck did.
Brilliant. Few people can talk and explain things so simply and clearly than Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. A great American treasure.
Brilliant is the right word. Man do we sorely mis leadership like hers today.
I have seen a few returned servicemen speaking of their experiences on the battlefield -- and I get a sense that some part of the education system -- maybe not technical or science -- maybe their literature.
(Popular classics 'Tom Sawyer', by Mark Twain or Robert Louis Stevenson or Dickens -- [not Jane Austen!] or essayists like Richard Steele and Charles Lamb -- which are like eating cornflakes with=out any milk and sugar to young people today -- can be reintroduced very gradually -- say 5 minutes per day -- or even 5 minutes per week -- as a boost flexibility and and resilience creativity.)
This lecture from Rear Admiral Hopper could have been said word-for-word in a lecture hall today and it would be just as applicable today as it was back in 1982.
Theory hvnt change much... justbrye computer size 😅😊❤
I agree. We learn from the great "wizards" of old, and their knowledge is timeless. If you boil down to foundational principles that are applicable in computer science no matter what the age. Instead of trying to memorize the syntax for the latest Javascript framework, enlighten yourself with the fundamental science to get true understanding. I have always been seeking the "oldies but goldies" as some might say. For example lectures by Jerry Cain or Walter Lewin. Sadly there are few such old professors still in teaching these days at the universities, but fortunately we can find their lectures on youtube for free!
That is exactly my thought!
Yes even the USA transportation part and what a great analogy for computer systems. She’s so outstanding.
Yep! the fundamentals really haven't changed much. They've just gotten faster and more capable.
I saw her speak in Boston in 1986 at the Engineering Societies of New England's Engineers Week. She gave the keynote address at the luncheon and we got to meet her at a VIP reception. I still have my nanosecond, although it broke when I unrolled it to show somebody. I'll just cut another piece of telephone wire and nobody will be wiser -- except the readers of this comment. She certainly made an impression on me at the time, and I'm grateful the NSA was able to post this lecture. I think it is likely similar to the one I attended. Watching it today I'm blown away by her ability to see the future.
She was working as an ambassador for DEC when she came to speak at UMass/Amherst in 1977. I made it a point to hear her and, yes, I, too, have lost the nanosecond she gave me, but I still remember "a nanosecond a foot"...it's actually more like 19 inches, but it's easier to remember a foot.
A very impressive person.
She gave me a nanosecond back in the early 80's in Virginia Beach at a technology conference. I had it for at least 30 years and seem to have lost it during one of my moves!
good post
I don’t know why they were interested in me. True to form. after watching Chuck, I picked CIA. I agreed to all the law, as long as it was in a language I couldn’t read. And they rejected me in the most important exciting experience.
I’m 60 and I’m an analyst/programmer in the UK. We learnt about Rear Admiral Grace Hopper in school in the late 70s. Amazing woman. So glad she was promoted to the rank she should have had.
Only in the Navy do they have ranks like 'Rear Admiral'.
She's one of the OG science communicators.
At this time she was a Captain.
I worked as a consultant in Information Management for 35 years and I'm now retired, Wow this lady was massivelly ahead of her time and we still don't treat the information much better in 80% of Business's
do boomer things and click on malware.
Again, lack of leadership as opposed to upper management with the trickle-down policies. She covered that too!
Money over values. Capitalism in action.
This feels like I'm in a dream. Like this lady sat with us in the meeting room yesterday, and I'm watching the video of that meeting. She was born in 1908 and talks about how they were focusing on data processing for 30 years (in 1982!) and no attention was paid to data, the raw material, the serves the output, their product, the information. Thank you for posting this, I really didn't expect to see something like this here, keep it coming. I know it has buzzwords like NSA, but is a mandatory watch for anyone working with data. This should be a mandatory watch in schools.
You’d like Doug Engelbart’s presentations as well. Information Science is a great field to work in. ❤
Her ideas are ideal, but tools don’t work like that.. you work with what you have.
That’s what people acting at the forefront are doing: making a pile of random tools and materials do something they’re not supposed to. Eventually the tools will catch up, but people have to show the path before the big money comes in to build the foundation.
@@hypnaudiostream3574You just removed my why I LOVE working in IT - I LOVE information, and I LOVE technology! 🫶
Absolute national treasure and legend. I've never heard her speak. (Missed those Letterman episodes.) She's hilarious in addition to being brilliant! Thanks for posting this.
Are you really a pilot?!
‘I’m afraid what we’ll be doing is buying hardware and writing code. What we should be doing is looking at the total flow of information in the organization, company or what have you.’
I will take this to my death.
This describes the solution to every major IT problem my Fortune 50 employer has dealt with in the past 5 years.
ya that is now called data analytics . it is a great job and she would love the field
@@myname-mz3lo what an ironic comment and a bit pednatic... the tone of whats described seems more rudimentary or fundamental than what we consider the industry standard for data analytics...
She has logical flaws, though. For example: Assuming that something that hasn't been accessed didn't need to be online was ridiculous. Contingency is real; emergencies are real.
@@Dudemon-1 No. She came from an era where memory and storage was scarce and very valuable, every byte mattered. Very different mentality.
To say she was ahead of her time, doesn't even come close to capturing the power of vision she held.
Basically everything that becomes mainstream is done 10-15 years before.Same with ai now, some people are giving warnings now so imagine 15 years from now.
I particularly liked how she described datacenters, vLANs, and distributed computing systems in there as something they needed to look at doing soon.
When I met Admiral Hopper it was at Atlanta Heartsfield airport in the '80s... I lit her cigarette, she admired my Zippo... she smoked Camel lungbusters, btw. She did not have a Nanosecond (short piece of wire) to give me, said she'd run out... but that's OK, the memory is with me still. I did get to tell her how much I enjoyed working in the microcomputer (controls) industry... I went on later to get a BSCS. Thanks Grace... you were the best.
The formidable Hopper is rivetting from the first and a revelation. She sports such insight, critical and analytical acumen, foresight, narrative and oratory skill, it is breathtaking. I commend those who released the footage.
After 40 years of secrecy though...
My favorite part 25:26 "If any one of you says 'but we've always done it this way' I will instantly materialize beside you and I will haunt you for 24 hours, and see if I can get you to think again. And I know it works, I've already had over 70 letters thanking me for haunting people. I"LL BE THERE. We've got to accept the new things that are ahead." Especially the part where Admiral Hopper says "I'll be there" you know the Admiral means it. Rear Admiral? That's a Real Admiral right there. O7
She would have been not only great tactician in war time -- but a great inspirer of the troops -- calm and clear -- able to transmit a sense of purpose and integrity -- A real Admiral!
She was back in the day when it was relatively easy to make a clock run backwards(accurately)
Not enough people are talking about how witty and funny she is. She's is able to tell these engaging and informative stories while also setting up punchline after punchline. Amazing lady.
Which is all the better because just from all the textbook info I had on her I'd be glued even if she was the most boring presenter which I have reliable information she's anything but.
She is such a fantastic communicator. Such an engaging presentation even for someone with a shorter attention span than neurotypical people haha
Do we have to talk about it? It is self evident. Not every comment section has tobe an echo chamber of your personal proclivities.
@@fitnesspoint2006 It's almost as if people like talking about things they enjoy or people look up to. What a nothing burger of a comment.
I’m just learning of this woman today, because of this video. Five minutes in, her genius is obvious. Intelligent is an understatement.
"There's no excuse for not writing programs that are portable." Meaning, they can run on any platform.
Money and profits are that excuse.
To be more precise, they can be ported via being compiled against any/most architectures.
I was an instructor at West Point 1985 to 1988. She came every year to talk to the Plebes. Brilliant in all respects. She always brought a sheaf of nanoseconds. It never struck me before, but her direct speaking style and dry humor absolutely parallel Richard Feynman.
I doubt anyone would refute the idea that computing lectures tend to run very dry and very boring. This woman is a master of public speaking; full of humor and prescient observations.
This talk hasn’t aged a single freaking day.
Well, the parts about the young thinking didn't hold up well.
She has a WW2 vet. Her young people are different than ours. The Boomers failed.
@@sford2044 She is greatest generation - her youngsters were the silent generation and she is talking about GenX to boomers
I checked the date -- to be sure that I had not misread the year : 1982!
@@tmhchacham She was very specific about where they come from... not the coasts.
WOW What a woman, it's people like this that have made your country great.
Same org is spying on you actively, public information. Quite great, innit?
Great presence of mind!
14 minutes in, and I've already been amazed several times. This is great!
this lecture should be shown literally nation wide to students
Rear Admiral Hopper is such a great American treasure. I certainly felt her spirit guiding me throughout my career! We're so lucky to have had her, it really just can't be overstated.
💯
More than 40 years later, and this still feels so inspirational
She is a great engaging speaker. It is rare to have a great analytic mind and be a great communicator. Thanks for posting.
She came to my attention when the German Society for Information Technology (Gesellschaft für Informatik) published a poster series of historical figures in information technology and she was one of this figures.
I find it interesting acutally listening to her.
Thank you & Dankeschön, for this post!
God Bless you Dr. Admiral Hopper, thank you for your immense wisdom bestowed on our generation and posterity. I am sure you already know how deeply we are in need of professors, engineers, and thinkers like yourself in the year 2024. Oh, how our nation and world mourns the loss of souls like Dr. Admiral Hopper.
Just wonderful! What a treasure of her intelligence and her contribution to the development of computer science. The creator of COBOL! And a great speaker to boot. So easy to listen to. And a true leader that anyone would be proud to work for. Grace Hopper's name is so well know in the annals of computer history. It's a treat to be able to experience her like this as well. This video was time well spent.
Couldn't agree more with all the comments about how incredibly timeless are her comments about the methods of computer systems and approach to problem solving. She is clearly an incredibly bright, funny and talented lady worthy of history, but can we also make sure the NSA gets a special thanks for putting this out. Ever since James Bamfords seminal book "The Puzzle Palace" they've been barely seen as anything except in the shadows but it takes real strength to share something historic like this. Huge thanks guys.
Rear Admiral Hopper gave an excellent lecture at the Census Bureau in Suitland Maryland back in 1981. She gave me a short piece of wire called a ‘nanosecond’. I was greatly impressed with her presentation and her career!
Magnificent! What wonderful find! Thank you for sharing it with us.
First time listening to Admiral Hopper, she has a wicked sense of humour and deadpan delivery. I like her !
Her prescience, brilliance, and charm is genuinely stunning. Everyone in technology or management should watch this presentation.
You can see why David Letterman had her on his show. He loved people like Admiral Hopper.
"his show"
I had the privilege of meeting her briefly as we rode the elevator to the lobby of the highrise River House apartments in Arlington circa '85 or '86. One of a kind!
Love this Lady! "The first large-scale digital computer in the United States was a Navy computer, operated by a Navy crew during World War Two. And recently, I've been finding that I have to remind people of that because there's been a tendency on the part of a certain junior service... to try to claim credit for those early computers... and they didn't even exist yet!"
So almost skipped this video, super glad I didn’t
thanyou for this. you are doing a real service putting this up for free on youtube.
Such an incredible lecture! On data, computers and leadership. Thanks for making this available.
Wow! What an amazing, insightful, funny, and fascinating talk. She is awe-inspiring. Thank you!
We really should encourage Computer Science students to give this a watch.
I had the honor of meeting her and talking with her before her speech at IDECUS many years ago. I still have a few nanoseconds that she gave me. She was a remarkable woman!
She was an absolute Legend and a massive inspiration for me it's awesome to be able to see video on UA-cam instead of just reading articles
Thank god this we have record of this woman. Truly an inspiration and wealth of knowledge.
Glad to see this, I couldn’t even guess how many people I’ve talked too describing how impressed I was when attended one of her lectures back then and of repeated some of her sayings they had never heard or knew who she was
"We have always done it this way" is the most dangerous thing you can say. "I will materialize and haunt you."
Wish I had met this Lady, what a treasure and a blessing for the US Navy to have access to someone with this level of foresight. Beyond impressive. I believe ARPANet was functional at this point.
Yeah, she was talking about "online" way before the Internet existed so must be referring to Arpanet circa 1975 -- the precursor to the Internet.
@@beepbop6697 In 1982, the term “online” in computing primarily referred to being connected to a computer network or system in real time. It meant that a computer, terminal, or device was actively connected to a mainframe or a network and capable of receiving and sending data without delays. This could involve being logged into a mainframe computer from a remote terminal, participating in time-sharing systems, or accessing data storage devices directly rather than offline processing, where tasks were completed and submitted manually for batch processing.
In 1984 as a young teen I learned BASIC on an Apple II. In 1988 as a late teenager in college, I learned machine language (Hexadecimal) and later dBase programming in my electronics engineering class. The machine language (using Z80 microprocessor) was very tedious, dry, brain wracking endeavour. It didn't make sense to me. After all I used BASIC language, and was learning dBase at the time. All those Hexadecimal stuff was causing me headaches. I felt very comfortable with BASIC and dBase, with it's easy programming language in plain English. 10 Print "xyz", 20 Goto 10. A primary school kid can do that with one eye closed. Today I learned that languages like COBOL, BASIC and dBase would not be without the Great Admiral. She left a lasting legacy to mankind. She is to programming what Henry Ford is to cars. RIP Admiral Hopper.
Not an Admiral yet! Folks, most of us would not have a job if not for her! That was the best description of how and why indexes works without even trying! I am in awe!
Just retired after a long IT career. Thank you ma'am.
Super! And about time too! These problems have *still* NOT been solved. She is right on. And all this from a LEGEND!
Glad I didn't skip this.
What an interesting talk. I wish we still had talks like these more casually these days.
The last 10 minutes on leadership is pure gold. So applicable to today! (and likely tomorrow)
I have a new hero. I wish I could've met her in my lifetime. The level of comprehension and foresight she saw with the field of computing is astounding. The fact she was able to affect so much change in her career is inspiring. Then going on to educate so many young minds even into her old age shows how strongly she cared for our future. It should not be forgotten. She would've been such an amazing person to talk to and get to know. Such a beautiful mind. RIP Admiral Grace Hopper
I once saw her at a university lecture series in the eighties. I thought it was going to be about computer science, but it was about more than that. I remember, to this day, her main point of her speech--“you manage things, you lead people.”
Thanks for releasing this, Grace was a great American and a great teacher
This is incredible. She was talking about microservices vs monoliths and orthogonal modules in software in the early 80s!
You can still learn a lot about data processing forty years later from this brilliant lady. She doesn't get the credit she deserves since she was in the NSA for so long and they tend to not say much. 🤪
She was in the Navy, not NSA.
An absolute legend -- she has and will always have my undying respect, admiration, and gratitude. And everything she put forth in that lecture is as apropos today as it was in 1982, even and especially the topic of standards.
Language standards have been widely adopted, though there is some dropping of things as languages evolve. However, I can still run 50-year-old mainframe FORTRAN code on a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero ... faster than on a 1980's supercomputer.
Fantastic, never seen Grace talk before, only ever read about her in textbooks and such. Thanks for posting this!
Edit: Worth every nanosecond! Remarkably prescient. Change a few words and it would be just as relevant now. What a treasure!
7:00 in and I already know the rest will be amazing. Thank you for uploading it!
Every few years i watch her appearance on David Letterman (it's on YT) , she was so great.
Adm Hopper has always been an inspiration to me. When I was a lot younger I saw an earlier lecture where she talked about how "long" a millisecond was and so on and it changed a lot of my outlooks on things.
Every single nanosecond of this is gold!
Her insights, practical knowledge, and wisdom are unprecedented. Here humor was spot on and timely. Everything she said over 40 years ago is still relevant to this very day, especially the bits on needing Leadership more than Managment within all industries. Hey D.C., Wallstreet, School Boards, etc. you ought to have to be required to watch this video at least once a year as a constant reminder!
Awesome lecture. I learned about her back in college and always wished I could have met her.
A well deserved standing ovation. That was amazing, thank you.
In the 1970s UCLA Graduate School of management was teaching what Grace Hopper claimed was not known of. The reason we were taught was our professors had done research on the subject and had gotten corporations to take action, some of which had happened in the 1960s. Before Admiral Hopper gave this lecture I designed and implemented systems that took the value of data into account.
I live Grace Hopper and the US Navy, but both have been given more credit in cybernetics than they deserve. Grace was smarter than me and much more capable, but she was also a Navy Chearleader. The attribute that Grace Hopper exceeded everyone but my father was the ability to teach people with no technical knowledge or ability in simple easy to understand ways. I could have given that lecture, but half the audience would probably have zoned out another quarter would have been overwhelmed by the full and complex description. Grace was one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century and living treasure of the United States.
Go Navy!
It's amazing listening to her talk, she could've been a comedian she's so funny! Another interesting artefact of the recording process is you can hear background chatter of those who added the slates at the beginnings of the recordings in the silence!
I *love* that quote "You manage *things,* you lead *people."* ❤
I can't help but wonder what Admiral Hopper would say to the likes of the Epyc or the Xeon processor. Talking here of something so extraordinary now so mundane. She was truly a remarkable woman and one who lives rent free in the back of my mind to this day. Thank you for this.
Not only does this woman know her stuff she has a great sense of humor. I'm sure it would've been an honor to serve under her.
Such a wonderful video and what a wonderful lady! She is a legend.
"But we've always done it that way" horrible quote! Totally agree with her 40 years later!
1 1/2 hours of straight up knowledge, humor and wisdom. What a legend.
Absolutely fascinating. Such a wise, and charismatic lady. RiP.
"Never take the first no, always go back and ask again"
That's such a good quote
When she retired from the Navy, she was nearly 80, the oldest serving member at that time.
Amazing! She is wonderful! Thank you for putting this on UA-cam! 👍😉
This is one of the best and most interesting talks I've ever watched.
Learned about her in Cobol class my senior year in Highschool Vo Tech.
Admiral Grace Hopper.
Creator of the Cobol programming language.
I had no clue she was this damn funny and this amazingly sharp
same! Fun fact COBOL is still used in some applications.
She didn't create COBOL.
@The_Conspiracy_Analyst Yes, she 100% did.
Google it kid.
She is witty AND brilliant.
Why do you think NVIDIA named one of their cards after her? Please don't say ignorant things. No excuse with Google right there at your fingertips
Still relevant after 42 years, amazing!!!, If you are into innovation, this is a must see lecture
Wow, what a great speech! A great history lesson, life lessons, and technology seminar all rolled into one
The wisdom she had... What she's saying that today, youngsters need a good positive leadership, it's soo truee and important. And her definition of leadership is just awesome and separating the definition of leadership from management is an awesome concept too❤🎉..
Am in love with this lady
One of the wisest people I've ever heard speak. She would absolutely recognize the modern CPUs and GPUs as descendents of what she's talking about. And the Internet is the great grand-cester of ARPANet that she used.
Using a length of wire to demonstrate length of time in reference to the speed of light is genius!
I’m only 10 minutes in and wow this woman is spot on. It’s too bad that todays computer programmers don’t take her advice. I think this should be a mandatory thing to watch for everyone who works in the computer business from programs to chip designers. It seems like most of today’s computer problems are caused by not knowing the value of the information!
I remember being in an airport lounge back in the early eighties and Grace Hopper was sitting across from me, asleep with a cigarette drooping out of the side of her mouth, tobacco colored spittle dripping on her uniform. She was a trooper and a tough old bird.
I believe that this is the earliest use of the term "online" that I can remember.
I first recall it in '75 or '76.
"online" is earlier, 70s.
Amazing lady. Had the privilege to board the USS Hopper at Pearl Harbor in 1997. Sea trials time for boat I think.
She was brilliant! I admire her for what she has done for computing. I always discussed her in my computer science classes.
What a gem!❤ Thank you.☕🥞😏👍
"You manage things...you lead people". ❤🙂
One of my heroes. I wish I could give this 1000 likes.
Wow!
Awesome!
Thank you!
"We have always done it this way" is forbidden in my office to!
August 2024
HOLY $H!T. this is the best lecture i have ever heard in the computer sciences.
Amazing how listening to competence and brilliance can give you the warm and fuzzies.
Thank you for putting this video on line.