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"FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency
record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has
released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt. Grace Hopper gave agency
employees on August 19, 1982.
The lecture, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People,”
features Capt. Hopper discussing some of the potential future challenges of
protecting information. She also provided valuable insight on leadership and
her experiences breaking barriers in the fields of computer science and
mathematics.
Rear Adm. Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United
States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I
computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to
devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the
FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later
extended to create COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use
today. In 2016, President Obama posthumously awarded Rear Adm. Hopper the
Presidential Medal of Freedom — the Nation’s highest civilian honor, awarded to
individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security
or national interest of the U.S. — for her remarkable influence on the field of
computer science.
While NSA did not possess the equipment required to access the footage from the
media format in which it was preserved, NSA deemed the footage to be of
significant public interest and requested assistance from the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) to retrieve the footage. NARA’s Special Media
Department was able to retrieve the footage contained on two 1" AMPEX tapes and
transferred the footage to NSA to be reviewed for public release.
NSA recognizes Rear Adm. Hopper’s significant contributions as a trailblazing
computer scientist and mathematician, but also as a leader."
Via Violet Blue’s
Cybersecurity Roundup: August 27, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-27-110873089
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
