Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, The hoppers are exploding because actually, the pesticide is taking something out of that little miniature Serengeti.
And that's when I got to meet her. She was at the end of her career and I was at the beginning of mine. So I want to finish today with, what are some lessons that we can glean from Hoppers experience and how can we apply those lessons in our own work today? Hopper used to say, "You manage things and you lead people". So what did she mean by that? You manage things but you lead people? Part of leading a group means that you need
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, But the hoppers are exploding.
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, The plant hoppers have nothing to control them.
way around that is having uh the astronauts have the ability to actually launch balloons make use of little robot Hoppers there's this design of a Mars airplane kind of a remote pilot vehicle for Mars and all controlled by the
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, And you can imagine that when farmers see these plant hoppers , they can get pretty nervous, because enough plant hoppers can really damage a crop.
over and over again. So they started building a library of tapes, and then they could bring and put those tapes together when they were working on another problem. They didn't call it subroutines at the time but in effect it became the basis for some of Hoppers work later on. They developed a concept of flow-charting, to chart out the problem they were working on, and to allow people who were working on the problem to know what the person had done before them. So you start seeing the rudimentary operational system behind programming also
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, It's killing spiders. And spiders are one of the natural enemies of plant hoppers -- not resistant to the pesticide.
Is it going to be an actor? In my head as soon as someone said that, I was like, oh, someone in a big lime green kind of onesie, with some like green hoppers on. Yeah. An actor in a costume.
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, And when they sprayed their fields with pesticides, they sometimes got a surprising result, which was they saw the plant hoppers go up up to 800-fold.
after leaving Harvard and joining the Eckhart and Maulchy Computer Corporation, Grace Mary Hopper found herself behind bars at the Central Philadelphia police station. The programming pioneer was arrested at 3am for drunk and disorderly conduct. She was eventually placed in the custody of Pennsylvania General Hospital for treatment. Hoppers ' life was unraveling. At the age of 43 years old she had accomplished much, yet her growing dependency on alcohol was jeopardizing her career and her relationships. As winter approached, she attempted to commit
assembly languages and things like that? And also what was the correlation, if she had any, to John Backus who did the Fortran Compiler? Kurt: Sure, sure, yeah. Um, yeah there were 2 paths that were happening. Hoppers was the compiling path. Ah, there were other languages growing, mainly out of MIT which were taking a different path. She was very friendly with John Backus actually. When I talked about
from Hoppers experience and how can we apply those lessons in our own work today? Hopper used to say, "You manage things and you lead people". So what did she mean by that? You manage things but you lead people? Part of leading a group means that you need to provide them with a purpose, with urgency, with a vision. During World War Two that urgency