Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's famous MIT Lecture
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Date: 2017-09-04

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1:48 For the start of her lecture
45:06 for the nanosecond demonstration.

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming, inventing one of the first compiler related tools. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

This lecture given onsite at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on 25 April 1985 coveres many salient points still relevent today.