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Season two opens by explaining the show’s shift to longer biographical portraits, then dives into Grace Hopper’s famous nanosecond demo: a foot of wire used to make latency tangible for engineers and leaders. The episode traces how that simple prop illuminates physics, design, and the hidden costs of distance in networks.
It also follows Hopper’s career—from wartime computation and the moth-in-the-relay anecdote to her work on early compilers, FLOW-MATIC, and the push for COBOL and enforceable standards—showing how she turned clever tools into lasting, teachable infrastructure that reshaped computing.
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