Monday, December 09, 2013

Admiral Grace Hopper gets her own Google Doodle


The San Diego Supercomputing Center wrote:
Her work embodied or foreshadowed enormous numbers of developments that are now the bones of digital computing: subroutines, formula translation, relative addressing, the linking loader, code optimization, and even symbolic manipulation of the kind embodied in Mathematica and Maple.
I've also written previously about her.  

1 comment:

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRXQL6dk4LI

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