Grace Murray Hopper
Date Submitted: 04/24/2001 23:28:20
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (465 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (465 words)
Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar College in 1928 with Phi Beta Kappa and a Vassar College Fellowship. She went to Yale University, where she earned an M.A. in 1930, and a Ph.D. in 1934. She also went to New York University as a Vassar Faculty Fellow in 1941. In December 1943 she was sworn in, and in May 1944, she joined the U. S. Naval Reserve and attended the USNR Midshipman School. Later she was …
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…this she also invented COBOL, the first user-friendly business software program. She retired in 1986 and was remembered for questioning the impossible. She had a Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from Yale University. In her office, she had a clock that ran counterclockwise as a reminder that most problems have more than one solution.
Sources:
J.A.N. Lee, VPI&SU Annals of the History of Computing, 9(3), 1987, p. 273.
Hopper, Inventors A-H, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.
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