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We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube


The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information.

The late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a gifted mathematician and undisputed pioneer in computer programming, honored posthumously in 2016 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hopper's famous 1982 lecture on "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People," has long been publicly unavailable because of the obsolete media on which it was recorded. But she didn't stop working: She became a senior consultant to Digital Equipment Corporation and "goodwill ambassador," giving public lectures at various computer-related events.

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