1982HopperSafer2

OK, here's the second half of the Hooper Safer interview on 60 Minutes. Now, I'm not sure if its from 1982 or 1983. It starts by quoting her age as 76 and she was born in 1906. But then at the end Safer says her commission was renewed for 2 more years until 1985? All I know is that I taped this in 1988 (must have been a repeated episode or greatest hits week) on my first VCR. I still use this VCR 20 years later! What a work horse, I think I taped avery single episode of Twighlight Zone, Outer Limits, Star Trek, Balylon 5 and Star Gate! Of course, I also taped lots of movies, documentaries (such as nova and ngs) and interviews (like this one)! Thanx to my new DVR I got for xmas from my family and www.zamzar.com I was able to salvage this tape!

Enjoy,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Grace
• Murray
• Hopper
• Morley
• Safer
• 60
• Minutes
• Interview
• Computer
• History
• 1982

[cistheta2007]

Thanx, glad u like it!

[cistheta2007]

danke, sind Sie sehr freundlich

[cistheta2007]

Yup, she was an inspiration!

[cistheta2007]

You're welcome!!!

[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.

[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..

[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)

[slitor]

@MartynInEurope Keep your dirty project methodologies out of this!

[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.