this is so cool - not just because Grace Hopper is so cool, but also because this was lost media until earlier this week

NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.

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I got to meet her when she gave a talk at the Naval Academy Prep School in 1987. She had just officially retired as a rear admiral, but the boiler fires were still fully lit! Somewhere around here I should still have the nanoseconds and picoseconds she gave me. Need to find them.

Thanks for sharing, very glad to hear they preserved and made this accessible. Bumping to the #NavalHistory feed.

For the record, this followed public shaming. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it

In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science....

the sheer number of nanoseconds it took this to reach our 👀

Several minutes in and wow. Encourage everyone to watch.

*shoves this into the Grace Hopper section of my school notes*

There are many docs from the NSA, Navy, NATO and CIA that are pure gold in content and the people in them… ❤️!

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