Posts Tagged ‘Ilya Kreymer’
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were”*…
Click your way down memory lane at Ilya Kreymer‘s Oldweb.today: choose a browser and date from the past, enter a URL (that was around then), and see how that site actually looked back then…
* Marcel Proust
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As we play in the past, we might send carefully-computed birthday greetings to Grace Brewster Murray Hopper. A seminal computer scientist and Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, “Amazing Grace” (as she was known to many in her field) was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer (in 1944), invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was one of the leaders in popularizing the concept of machine-independent programming languages– which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages.
She has both a ship (the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper) and a super-computer (the Cray XE6 “Hopper” at NERSC) named in her honor.
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