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[RMDOTE7]

Incredible. People need to respect the role women played in mathematics and computer history. What a role model and a great, wise person she was.

[palmtreepromo]

great

[cadmus98]

Joined the navy because she liked blue?

Good enough reason I suppose.

[ge01f]

Leadership > Management. Grace rocks.

[fangwoman]

Wow. She's amazing! I'm doing a report on her for my math class...and watching this interview literally brought tears to my eyes because she's so...I don't know. More than smart. An incredible human being.

[SirMildredPierce]

you can use the youtube editor to combine these clips and youtube now allows clips up to 15 minutes now.

[fremandn]

She's an amazing speaker. I wish I had seen some of these interviews earlier.

[qualqui]

Wow, WHAT A LADY!!! Luved this interview so much thanx cistheta2007 for sharin'! *****

[rrmoh]

dig her up and put that COBOL compiler in there with here.. its a albatross around our neck..

[sars1502]

@rrmoh better than machine code

[rrmoh]

u mean auto-coder?...yes i remember..or assembler with two character mnemonics..

LW R5.... the 16 general registers..

[sars1502]

@rrmoh haha. you were around for autocoders? sweet i thought i was old school with ma pascal :(

[rrmoh]

all the way down to 1's and 0's 010101011(16) and the last digit on the right is the sign..+,-.. and and, or ,nor, nand, not etc etc.. actually I'd like to forget most of it.. I wonder if its taught down to that level anymore except for engineers.. use to be everybody in CS got the treatment.. now its just pretty colors and click mouse and you are an expert..

[sars1502]

@rrmoh sweet. i asked one of the electrical engineers if they write in binary and he said the 1's and 0's dont actually exist any more its all just electrical representations, is that true? also what do you code in these days?

[MartynInEurope]

COBOL, the first AGILE language, sort of

[slitor]

@MartynInEurope Keep your dirty project methodologies out of this!

[MartynInEurope]

An example for us all. Brilliant Grace!

[rrmoh]

i don't think writing directly in 1's and 0's is used anymore either..except maybe by hackers. ha ha..the 1's and 0's are are representation of on and off electrical current.. 1=on, 0=off.. I used assembler, and FORTRAN to start in corporate world.. just a little assembler.its all still there but much deeper down in the computers guts. now lang like C++ and Unix rules..but eventually all code is translated into 1 and 0's. that's what compilers and assemblers do.turn it into machine code (1,0)'s

[sars1502]

hehe ya i know that much. never really played around with the low level stuff tho. mostly use the dynamic languages these days but was a pascal/delphi programmer a while ago with matlab and R

[MartynInEurope]

Did some macro assembler once, it was interesting, to know what low level really means, but I prefer the tools that make life easier.

[MartynInEurope]

Yep, that's why COBOL, for all it's peculiarities, was a big advance

[slitor]

@rrmoh There are plenty of times where the compilers can't optimize the code good enough for the CPU, then its best to know the cpu and know the tricks to map out efficient instructions, assembly is still being widely used, especially in graphics programming, OS and embedded devices.(though you can code some optimisation tricks even in higher level programming languages)

[rrmoh]

@slitor true true... cpu's are getting so fast.. it doesn't mean much to code optimely anymore.. good enough... to get the job done.. and let the hardware speed it up..

[JAM4111]

Brilliant insights into leadership and spot on about our lack of it in education and high places. Her sense of responsibility, her satisfaction is her service to her country, and her enthusiasm for the future are qualities I love about her. Oh yeah, her sense of humor too.

[rrmoh]

personally I'd like to forget it.. but low level code was used to bring data from hard disk, floppy's and now flash drives.. it has to get in to the computer somehow.. and much of the same code to do that work is still used today..as many years ago.. code doesn't wear out.. just put the same stuff on the new whizz bang box.. and whala.. it still works.. the customer only thinks its all brand new..no sense in rewriting code over and over.. its an invisible world for 99.99% of people.. ..

[sars1502]

lol. what code are you talking about tho? can you give an example of where they use old cold? i mean im aware they dont rewrite operating systems every release and such. i know its easy to get work as a C programmer just maintaining code. but what comes in a 'box' thats comprised of old code?

[IcarusFlying]

a ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. EXCELLENT ! move ! be alive!

[rrmoh]

operating system code that performs the I/O for devices hooked to your machine.. not the application code you were trained to code in.. all the underlying software that make the system boot up..etc.. that type of code..its software nobody sees but the manufacture.. (but hackers get down there too)

[sars1502]

gotcha

[rrmoh]

there's an old saying in computers.. 'the more you know, the more you realize you don't don't know'.. honestly..there's a lot I don't know either.. but they use to teach computers starting the lowest level possible..even some chemistry of how to make circuits go off and by using chemical compounds...and switching electron flow... Google 'low level software'.. you can dig in from there...

[brokenjohnny]

Someone needs to send this to Jessica Valenti.

[jboneau]

I was in the Navy for 6 years as a Machinist Mate in the nuclear propulsion program and the first time I have heard of this extraordinary woman was today in my Management Information Systems class at Western Washington University when we were talking about the COBOL computer language. What an amazing person!

[daza2j96]

Because of this woman - computer programming languages can be translatede from binary (machine languages) to human language. Thanks for posting this - I was really hoping to see a clip with her in it :)

[cistheta2007]

Thanx, glad u like it!

[godwhyisthistaken]

yes great job

[cistheta2007]

danke, sind Sie sehr freundlich

[xxRico1994xx]

SIE IST SEHR SCHLAU

[cistheta2007]

Yup, she was an inspiration!

[YZFHornet]

We need more people (men & women) like her.

[cistheta2007]

You're welcome!!!

[LtWashburn]

Thanks for posting this!