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Grace Hopper and Hyman Rickover might be the two greatest minds the Navy ever produced.

• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  They're way up there but have you read on the Naval Research Laboratory? They have some smart people. Several people that helped invent and develop INFOSEC ended up over there at CHACS as an example. Myers wrote the definitive reference on subversion threat as well. Tor got developed by some others. I think Grace Hopper has more impact than those via compilers and COBOL. Still worth considering NRL if we're measuring Navy's brains. Might be something great in there.
  • officemonkey 10y ago
    Oh, I don't think they're not super-bright people at NRL, but Rickover invented the nuclear navy _and_ nuclear power. The culture he invented has created an extremely safe power industry that has had essentially two major accidents world-wide in 60 years (I don't count Cernobyl because the Soviets caused that accident, not the Rickover-quality-psychos.
    • nickpsecurity 10y ago
      I didn't know he was the one behind that. Yeah, that's amazing on another level. :)