December 9

Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper (born December 9, 1906) U.S. computer scientist, computer language developer – FLOWMATIC (computer compiler language); Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (with Howard Aiken – 1946)

Read more about Grace Hopper here

Grace Hopper talks about her career developing computer languages
on the David Letterman program
 here


Edoardo Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti (born December 9, 1930) Italian poet, critic, playwright

Read two poems by Sanguineti here

Sanguineti talks about his poetry (in Italian)
 here


Avraham B. Yehoshua

Avraham B. Yehoshua (born December 9, 1936) Israeli novelist – The Retrospective (2013)

Read more about Yehoshua here

Yehoshua talks about Jewishness and the diaspora
 here