<description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programing, and among her accomplishments, Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest civilian honor – in 2016.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;In 1982, then-Captain Hopper delivered a lecture at NSA entitled, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” Her insights on leadership and her prescient predictions still hold weight today, more than forty years later.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;In this two-part bonus episode of No Such Podcast, we bring you the lecture in full. Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"&gt;Learn more at NSA.gov. Find the show transcript and other episodes at &lt;a href= "https://www.nsa.gov/Podcast/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;NSA.gov/podcast&lt;/a&gt;. Discover job opportunities at &lt;a href="https://www.nsa.gov/careers/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;NSA.gov/careers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

No Such Podcast

National Security Agency (NSA)

Part One: "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

NOV 26, 202449 MIN
No Such Podcast

Part One: "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

NOV 26, 202449 MIN

Description

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programing, and among her accomplishments, Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest civilian honor – in 2016.

In 1982, then-Captain Hopper delivered a lecture at NSA entitled, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” Her insights on leadership and her prescient predictions still hold weight today, more than forty years later.

In this two-part bonus episode of No Such Podcast, we bring you the lecture in full. Enjoy!

Learn more at NSA.gov. Find the show transcript and other episodes at NSA.gov/podcast. Discover job opportunities at NSA.gov/careers.