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Grace Hopper Lecture

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Grace Hopper Lecture

A lecture by Commodore Grace Hopper on the future of computing, posted by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. It includes her well-known nanosecond wire demonstration and humorous comparisons of device latencies.

Cited for her vivid illustration of orders of magnitude in latency, and as an example of a great computing pioneer as teacher.

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