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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was the first programmer of the Mark I Calculator and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.
Early life and education
Hopper was born as Grace Brewster Murray. She married Vincent Hopper in 1930 and was divorced in 1945. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1928 and pursued her graduate education at Yale University, where she received a Master's degree in those subjects in 1930. In 1934 she received a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was on New Types of Irreducibility Criteria. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931, and by 1941 she was an associate professor.
Mark I and Mark II Calculators
In 1943 she joined the U.S. Naval Reserve on active duty and was assigned to work with Howard Aiken on the Mark I Calculator. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end of the war she was separated from active duty with the Navy, remaining in the reserves, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators. It was while she was working on Mark II that she discovered a moth in a relay — a bug in the computer. Hopper noted it in a log book (now in the Smithsonian Institution) as the first actual case of a bug being found. Erroneously, some have cited this incident as the genesis of the term bug, but the term was already in wide use. More on [ Grace Hopper ]
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Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time." Grace Murray Hopper
sassysilver (terry parvan) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:20:51 -0000
Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time." Grace Murray Hopper
http://bit.ly/6TVAki Huffpost - This week celebrates Computer Ed Week. Date chosen to honor Grace Murray Hopper.
KMSandT (KMS&T) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:33:15 -0000
http://bit.ly/6TVAki Huffpost - This week celebrates Computer Ed Week. Date chosen to honor Grace Murray Hopper.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper
CashGumShoe81 (Cash Gumshoe) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:48:01 -0000
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper and her contributions to computer science on our website. http://bit.ly/74xO95
tech_info_2 (technology) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:16:33 -0000
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper and her contributions to computer science on our website. http://bit.ly/74xO95
@rob4872 You manage things you lead people. - Grace Murray Hopper #quote
quoteshash (John Shin) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:14:31 -0000
@rob4872 You manage things you lead people. - Grace Murray Hopper #quote
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way." ~ Grace Murray Hopper
tranquility1980 (Nicole Grunewald) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:18:49 -0000
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way." ~ Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Hopper - Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - The fourth in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Includes schedule and hotel information.
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Grace Murray Hopper - Photograph, biography, and references.
Grace Murray Hopper - Biography.
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Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist - Brief biography and two photographs.
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Hopper, Grace Murray - Short biography.
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper - Biography and photograph.
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper - Biography and appreciation. Official US Navy website.
Remembering Grace Murray Hopper: A Legend in Her Own Time - Biography by Elizabeth Dickason.
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