In August 1982, Admiral Grace Hopper gave a lecture on “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People” at the NSA’s Fort Meade headquarters. This spring, after initially saying they could not find their recording of this landmark lecture, the NSA clarified: they no longer have the ability to view the recording. 

[MuckRock has a great story up now](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa/ about the lecture and efforts to get the intelligence agency to make the recording public. 

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