Grace Hopper explains Nanoseconds and Picoseconds - Page 1
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author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2014, 04:21:00 pm
content: Video from the mid 1980s where computing pioneer, and "Queen of Software", Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, explains what a Nanosecond and Picosecond are to David Letterman.

author: mrflibble
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 04:42:49 pm
content: ps: a long timens: a bloody long time

author: bwat
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 06:04:12 pm
content: The "Queen of Software"? Nah, Ada Lovelace,the Princess of Parallelogramsis head and shoulders above anybody else. Justreadhow she invented symbolic computing over 100 years before researchers at MIT invented LISP:QuoteSomewhere in the world some advertising team is looking for some female social mediaentrepreneursto front a "more women in IT" campaign. You wont find a mention of the countess or the rear-admiral in such a campaign. Quite sad really.

author: edpalmer42
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 07:12:00 pm
content: His research people kind of dropped the ball on that one. He should have asked her about the term "computer bug".Ed

author: PA0PBZ
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 07:51:32 pm
content: Quote from: edpalmer42 on July 28, 2014, 07:12:00 pmYup:

author: Dongulus
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 08:19:28 pm
content: And here I was pronouncing picoseconds all wrong.

author: edpalmer42
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2014, 09:07:13 pm
content: It took me a minute to figure out what she was saying. I've never heard anyone use that pronunciation. I've only heard 'pico' pronounced as 'peeko'.Ed

author: Stonent
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 09:16:13 pm
content: Quote from: edpalmer42 on July 28, 2014, 09:07:13 pmI hear it both ways.

author: IanB
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 09:30:12 pm
content: It was for me the first time I have heard anyone pronounce it "pyco". I didn't know that pronunciation existed.

author: AlfBaz
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 10:48:44 pm
content: Quote from: IanB on July 28, 2014, 09:30:12 pmFunnily enough that's the only way I've ever heard it and wince when ever I hear Dave say peekofarads

author: gxti
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timestamp: July 28, 2014, 10:57:36 pm
content: Quote from: bwat on July 28, 2014, 06:04:12 pmIt wouldn't be the first time I've heard her name-dropped. For example:http://adainitiative.org/

author: bwat
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timestamp: July 29, 2014, 06:20:38 am
content: Quote from: gxti on July 28, 2014, 10:57:36 pmI checked out the website and strangely enough, the biography ofLovelaceis only about half the size of the biographies of each of the threefounders and staff.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 29, 2014, 07:10:06 am
content: Quote from: AlfBaz on July 28, 2014, 10:48:44 pmStandard Australian pronunciation of picofarad has been "peekofarad" for as long as I've been around,(which is a depressingly long time),or alternatively,the less politically correct "Poofs".