Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works!” – Grace Hopper lectures finally digitized and make public
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/31
Earlier this week NSA posted something I didn’t expect them to get done this soon, not even after all the public pressure about it mid last month (see for instance [Wayback/Archive] Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it • MuckRock):
- [Wayback/Archive] NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper > National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Press Release View
- [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982) > National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Historical Releases View
The were published as 2 YouTube videos(embedded videos below the blog post signature):
- 49 minutes [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) – YouTube
- 41 minutes [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982) – YouTube
More historic lectures at NSA: [Wayback/Archive] National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Helpful Links > NSA FOIA > Declassification & Transparency Initiatives > Historical Releases
Grace Hopper explaining the length of a nanosecond is mentioned in my blog post One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?.
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Rob Joyce on X: “@jpluimers …”
- [Wayback/Archive] Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works! …”
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “When the NSA is too lazy to call the Computer History Museum, Internet Archive or Smithsonian for help digitising the Grace Hopper 1982 landmark lecture AMPEX 1-inch video tapes:”
[Wayback/Archive] lproven: “Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it
buff.ly/4cJWiUAIntelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording …” – Vivaldi Social
(the second tweet was my reminder to put this in a blog-post)
--jeroen
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