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Grace Hopper

Also known as Grace Murray Hopper, Grace M. Hopper, Admiral Hopper, Grace Brewster Murray, Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Grace Murray, Grace Brewster Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

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Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and Navy officer who lived from 1906 to 1992. She is widely recognized as a pioneering figure in early computer programming and the development of computer languages.

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Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

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Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1993
Active to: 1997

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“From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”
“At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But there isn't any reason for printing them. The next generation growing up with the computers will change that.”
“I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"”
“In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."”
“At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"”
“There's something you learn in your first boot-camp, or training camp: If they put you down somewhere with nothing to do, go to sleep — you don't know when you'll get any more.”

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Image: Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN (covered).jpg

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date of birth: 1906-12-09
date of death: 1992-01-01
Commons category: Grace Hopper
Commons gallery: Grace Hopper
name in native language: Grace Murray Hopper
described at URL: www.sciencestories.io/Q11641
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011390
birth name: Grace Brewster Murray
nickname: Amazing Grace
start of work period: 1943-00-00

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Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."

Before joining the Navy, Hopper earned a Ph.D. in both mathematics and mathematical physics from Yale University and was a professor of mathematics at Vassar College. She left her position at Vassar to join the United States Navy Reserve during World War II. Hopper began her computing career in 1944 as a member of the Harvard Mark I team, led by Howard H. Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part of the team that developed the UNIVAC I computer. At Eckert–Mauchly she managed the development of one of the first COBOL compilers.