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Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and mathematician and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer ...

Adm. Grace Hopper, one of the unsung heroes of women in tech, invented the first “compiler,” a software that translates programming language into numbers a computer understands, in 1952. It's a day of ...

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a four-decade veteran of the United States Navy and a mathematician who made pioneering contributions to computer programming, died New Year's Day at her home in ...

Rear Adm. Carl Lahti remembers meeting Rear Adm. Grace Hopper as a plebe. She gave a lecture at Mitscher Hall, during which she handed out pieces of nanowire, including to Lahti. That was 34 years ago ...

Anyone who has written a computer program in a language like Basic, Cobol, or Fortran, can thank Grace Hopper for saving them the mental strain of having to learn the computer's native tongue of 0s ...