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One Internet meme cleverly described “Supernatural” as “Scooby Doo for adults,” but that can’t be the whole story: would we really keep tuning in for over a decade just to watch those pesky, meddling Winchester boys try to thwart evil at every turn?

While men’s experience has until now been the measure of a story, and hero’s, universality, the strengths and weakness of the new heroine are uniquely female.

Born Dec. 9, 1906, Grace Murray Hopper was, among other things, a brilliant mathematician and computer scientist; a high-ranking U.S. Navy officer; and a gifted teacher and communicator. So it’s not difficult to understand why she was nicknamed “Amazing Grace” by her subordinates in the Navy once upon a time. The New York native died in 1992 at age 85, but her trailblazing contributions left an indelible impression on the world.  Hopper’s academic reputation was nothing short of dazzling....