monetizeyourcat:thegreensage:stefanhayden:This is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. She worked for UNIVAC i
monetizeyourcat:thegreensage:stefanhayden:This is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. She worked for UNIVAC in 1949 who made some of the first computers ever. In 1951 she discovered the first computer “bug.”. In 1952 she had an operational compiler. “Nobody believed that,” she said. “I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”You might not know what a compiler is, but it’s the reason you have an Operating System with programs on or a phone with apps. There would be no Windows or Apple or facebook or twitter or tumblr without her.Today 14% of engineers are female. Some thing when wrong. Grace Hopper is a BAMF and more people should know.GRACE HOOPER ROCKS!!!personality tests were developed in the 60s in response to widespread unease in academia and the research industry with how many programmers and computer operators were women; the modern image of the programmer as having male-leaning antisocial traits was basically developed by HR managers during the johnson administrationwhen grace hopper was young she was basically typical of her profession and now people like her are systematically excluded -- source link
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