"That's a pretty big gourd you've got there..."She may be trying to size him up. Note where she's looking.
"That's a pretty big gourd you've got there..."She may be trying to size him up. Note where she's looking.
Caching up from a couple of days ago. Thanks for the article about the 10 amazing female computer scientists you've probably never heard of. I have heard of Joan Clarke (Alan Turin was my mathematician hero) and Grace Hopper (I used to program in COBOL - and that really dates me). We need to publicize these overlooked women and there are many more in a variety of scientific fields.View attachment 806870 she said ...
actually, I think that pic is of Bletchley Park, where the girls generally worked in their undies,
as the proto-computer got so hot. So were they. And the men who brought the Engima stuff over for processing ...
It's from this excellent piece about women computer scientists-
be honest - how many of them have you heard of?
(My answer is 1, Stephanie Shirley, because of her philanthropic acitvities)
10 Amazing Female Computer Scientists You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Read about 10 of modern history’s most inspirational female computer scientists, who changed the face of modern technology.www.topuniversities.com
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actually, I think that pic is of Bletchley Park, where the girls generally worked in their undies,
as the proto-computer got so hot. So were they. And the men who brought the Engima stuff over for processing ...
It's from this excellent piece about women computer scientists-
be honest - how many of them have you heard of?
(My answer is 1, Stephanie Shirley, because of her philanthropic acitvities)
10 Amazing Female Computer Scientists You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Read about 10 of modern history’s most inspirational female computer scientists, who changed the face of modern technology.www.topuniversities.com
The list of your disciples appears to be increasing, or is it just wishful thinking ?Looks to me like she’s saying, “Blow job? Sorry, I don’t do that.”
I'm kind of surprised no one knows about Grace Mary Hopper, the "grandmother of COBOL", the lead inventor of C(ommon)B(usiness)O(riented)L(anguage) (as opposed to FOR(mula)TRAN(slation). She ended up a rear admiral in the United States Navy. The story is she was entering Canada in uniform and the customs guy was staring at it. "US Navy." "You must be the oldest one they've got."View attachment 806870 she said ...
actually, I think that pic is of Bletchley Park, where the girls generally worked in their undies,
as the proto-computer got so hot. So were they. And the men who brought the Engima stuff over for processing ...
It's from this excellent piece about women computer scientists-
be honest - how many of them have you heard of?
(My answer is 1, Stephanie Shirley, because of her philanthropic acitvities)
10 Amazing Female Computer Scientists You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Read about 10 of modern history’s most inspirational female computer scientists, who changed the face of modern technology.www.topuniversities.com
More snow and wind heading here again this evening and overnight.Excellent. Looks pretty nasty from what I've seen from reports and vids.
Ottawa is getting pasted as we speak, but it won't be the same volume.
Make sure to keep safe and warm.More snow and wind heading here again this evening and overnight.
Thank youMake sure to keep safe and warm.
I'm kind of surprised no one knows about Grace Mary Hopper, the "grandmother of COBOL", the lead inventor of C(ommon)B(usiness)O(riented)L(anguage) (as opposed to FOR(mula)TRAN(slation). She ended up a rear admiral in the United States Navy. The story is she was entering Canada in uniform and the customs guy was staring at it. "US Navy." "You must be the oldest one they've got."
Margaret Hamilton led the programming team for Apollo 11. The code was good enough that they issued warnings when things were backed up. Processors were slow, and these would flash when certain events couldn't be tended to in a certain time interval. It wasn't an issue, it just meant the code had other more important things to do. They started flashing during the descent, and Armstrong asked about it. Hamilton had to tell him not to worry.
Everyone has heard the story about where the term "bug" came from. Pre-transistors, the machines used vacuum tubes. They would blow out a lot, and also generate a lot of heat (leading to the suggestion that the female technicians at Bletchley be allowed to go topless). The also attracted moths, which would blow them out. Hence the term "bug in the machine".
Way back when, there was Ada Lovelace, a collaborator of Charles Babbage and his "computing engine". She had a programming language named after her, which like "Pascal" is now mainly unused.
There is a book by Dava Sobel called "The Glass Universe", about the women at the Harvard Observatory who combed through photographic slides from telescopes looking for motion and anomalies. Apparently the men were generally too impatient to actually do the detailed work required to process the data. Dark matter was discovered by a woman who noticed that something was speeding up rotation at the edges of clusters which according to Newton shouldn't be happening based on the matter that was visible. I actually knew someone who did this kind of thing once, while her husband was getting his astronomy degree. When he got a faculty job, she took a job as a "systems programmer" (someone who knows the code needed to address the actual 'architecture' of the machine--load the contents of this memory location into this register, add register 2 and register 7, etc.--and keeps the machine updated and finds problems). He ended up not getting tenure because the department didn't want to fill up all their slots with permanent people and not be able to bring in new blood. So, he got a law degree. I don't know what happened to her, but I assume she did just fine.
This is a pic of the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park being operated by two ladies wearing the Park uniform. A hat was also part of the uniform.View attachment 808761
hmmm I very dimly remember that...and this.
Thanks for the article about the 10 amazing female computer scientists you've probably never heard of
I was unfamiliar with Colossus but if a computer could ensure that I had a woman four times a week that would be a great start.And because I am a congenital geek, this reminds me of the Colossus of New York
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and this.
Don't forget Colossus said 'Agreed ... UNDER MY CONDITIONS'if a computer could ensure that I had a woman four times a week that would be a great start
And the early days of the space program, as depicted in the movie "Hidden Figures"Now of course, before there were electronic computers, there was already a considerable and constantly increasing economic demand for large scale computation, quite noticeably so by the first decades of the 20th century -- insurance companies for instance were a major client -- and this was done by 'computers', as in people who computed - there would be lots of them crammed into a hall side by side at their desks and this would mostly be women.
This, if Wiki is to be believed, is the original bugThe also attracted moths, which would blow them out. Hence the term "bug in the machine".
I have a book which I've skimmed (I should read more) that claims that the first ELECTRONIC computer was invented by a physics professor in Ames, Iowa, in the 1930's, named Atanasoff, and the creators of ENIAC stole his ideas.And because I am a congenital geek, this reminds me of the Colossus of New York
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and this.