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Grace Hopper - Wikipedia
16 Jan 2026 at 9:20pm
Grace Hopper ... Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 ? January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [1] She was a pioneer of computer programming.

Biography of Grace Murray Hopper - Office of the President
16 Jan 2026 at 9:06pm
Hopper is best known for her trailblazing contributions to computer programming, software development, and the design and implementation of programming languages. A maverick and an innovator, she enjoyed long and influential careers in the U.S. Navy and the computer industry.

Grace Hopper | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts | Britannica
18 Jan 2026 at 9:01am
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.

Grace Hopper - National Women's History Museum
16 Jan 2026 at 3:34am
Hopper was involved in the creation of UNIVAC, the first all-electronic digital computer. She invented the first computer compiler, a program that translates written instructions into codes that computers read directly.

Life Story: Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
17 Jan 2026 at 2:14am
Grace Hopper was a world-famous computer programmer whose impressive career in STEM began when she joined the war effort during World War II.

Life | Grace Hopper | Vassar College
17 Jan 2026 at 10:06am
Born in New York City in 1906, Grace Murray Hopper was voraciously curious from her earliest years, ultimately earning advanced degrees in mathematics and physics at a time when few women did. Her path defied expectations, leading her from academia to the frontlines of computing and the U.S. Navy.

This Female Naval Officer Became a Computer-Age Pioneer
9 Sep 2025 at 6:43am
Known alternately as "Amazing Grace," "the Mother of Computing" and "Grandma COBOL," Grace Murray Hopper revolutionized the world of computing -- and with it, the world of the Navy.

Remembering Grace Murray Hopper: A Legend in Her Own Time - NHHC
16 Jan 2026 at 7:33pm
Eighty-five-year-old Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper who dedicated her life to the Navy passed away on 1 January 1992. As a pioneer Computer Programmer and co-inventor of COBOL [Common...

Grace Murray Hopper - CHM
14 Jan 2026 at 12:44am
Hopper remained at Harvard until 1949, when she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, led by the designers of the groundbreaking ENIAC computer system. There, she developed one of the world's first compilers and compiler-based programming languages.

Grace Murray Hopper - Engineering and Technology History Wiki - ETHW
17 Jan 2026 at 4:16am
In 1957, she edited the ACM Glossary of Computing Terms ? the first authoritative dictionary of computing. Although not as important as the programming work which earned her the nickname ?Amazing Grace,? Hopper is also remembered for a humorous incident involving a ?bug? in a computer system.



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