Harvard University
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The pin is the university’s own point.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queen of Code | Documentary | Data The Destroyer | setting |
The Queen of Code | Documentary — Data The Destroyer
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He then waved his hand at Mark 1, all 51 feet of it, and he said, “That’s a computing engine.”
- Role: setting
- In the video: Assigned to a secret project at Harvard, Grace Hopper reports to Howard Aiken, who runs the Mark 1 like a military operation. The team works around the clock and solves the implosion calculation for von Neumann.
- Why it matters: Where Hopper’s computing career began.