Grace Hopper documentary - "The Queen of Code"

The Queen of Code at FiveThirtyEight

https://youtu.be/Qwwf866Cfdg (no longer available)

Also, an interview with the director of the short film at NPR, on All Tech Considered: Grace Hopper, ‘The Queen Of Code,’ Would Have Hated That Title

The moth, or first computer “bug” mentioned in the video and audio above.

There’s also a Grace Hopper GitHub sticker (shown below) called the “Gracehoptocat.” The sticker was given out at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Grace Hopper GitHub sitcker, "Gracehoptocat"

[sidenote: The video clip on FiveThirtyEight has a Javascript embed code, which won’t work on WordPress without some tinkering. Thankfully, “The Queen of Code” video is also hosted on YouTube as shown in this post.]

[sidenote to the sidenote: Now in 2025, most links are broken, the videos are not viewable and 538 or fivethirtyeight.com is being shut-down.]

(Originally published on my old site, "The Digital Imaginary" [imaginary.digital], on March 26th, 2015 -- revised and republished April 1st, 2025.)