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Jun 29, 2024 · Grace Hopper, American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL. Learn more about Hopper’s life and career.
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Jun 14, 2024 · "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." — Grace Murray Hopper. Grace Hopper was born in New York, New York, in 1906. She held a BS in mathematics and physics from Vassar College (1928) and an MS (1930) and PhD in mathematics (1934) from Yale University.
Jun 11, 2024 · Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea. When Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. Navy in 1986, she was the first woman restricted line officer to reach flag rank and, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy.
Jun 20, 2024 · Her accomplishments earned Grace the nickname “Amazing Grace.” People admired her for her inventions. And for her sense of humor. Once, when a computer stopped working, her team discovered that a dead moth had gummed up a relay. Grace retrieved the insect and pasted it into the lab’s logbook.
Jun 27, 2024 · Our next famous woman in computer science that we’ll be talking about is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Grace Hopper enlisted in the Navy and worked on the Harvard Mark I computer, as well as the UNIVAC, a successor to the ENIAC, and we’ll talk about the UNIVAC and ENIAC computers in another lecture.
Jun 23, 2024 · Grace Hopper will forever be remembered for her contributions to computing and programming developments. However, there are so many female engineers who have, and still do, contributed to outstanding feats of engineering, and go unnoticed or underappreciated.
Jun 27, 2024 · “Plain, ordinary people, who had problems they wanted to solve.” “Grace was an inspiration and a pioneering archetype of the computer engineer,” said Jing Li, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor in ESE and CIS. “She was a master of the physical machine and the ways to program them for both performance and human effort.”
