Grace Hopper lecture

[Mos]

This footage seems to have been released by NSA recently. Never listened to Hopper speak before and found this very fascinating.

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Part 2:

 

[Brett327]

She used to go on Letterman in the 80s. She’s pretty entertaining.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

This is right after she retired.

 

[Gatordev]

Does anyone know what she actually was? By that I mean she was doing ADP stuff, along what would now be IWO, but she's wearing stars. Was she a GURL?

I understand she was a bit of an anomaly for the time, but big Navy was still so restrictive on where they administratively put females, I'm assuming she was put in some designator that made the Navy happy but continued to let her be successful at her actual job/skill set.

 

[Flash]

Does anyone know what she actually was? By that I mean she was doing ADP stuff, along what would now be IWO, but she's wearing stars. Was she a GURL?

I understand she was a bit of an anomaly for the time, but big Navy was still so restrictive on where they administratively put females, I'm assuming she was put in some designator that made the Navy happy but continued to let her be successful at her actual job/skill set.

I would assume EDO or the equivalent to it back then. And like Rickover, Congress and civilian leadership made sure she was promoted and kept on active duty well past statutory retirement no matter what Big Navy wanted.