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Recipients of nanosecond
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Admiral Grace Hopper was a well-known early software programmer while serving in the United States Navy between 1943 and her retirement in 1986. To better explain the time-delays inherent in satellite communications, she kept a bundle of multi-colored, insulated, telephone wire in her handbag and distributed individual strands to audience members at her many talks to illustrate in a concrete fashion the maximum speed traveled by light, and electromagnetic radiation in general, in one nanosecond. The Recipients of Grace Hopper nanoseconds (pieces of surplus wire approximately 30 cm long) refer to their mementos with fondness reminiscent of academicians stating their . The following recipients are identified from public sources: * Grady Booch (1970s, owned) * David Letterman (2 October 1986) * Jack Gannsle (1980s, owned) * David Klappholz (1970s, lost) * Jamie Cox (1976) |
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