The 60 Minutes interview with Grace Murray Hopper 12:37. On Saturday, Yale University president Peter Salovey announced that the Ivy League school will rename a residential college to honor one of ...

But that was far from the only reason she merited a 60 Minutes profile. Way back in 1944, Hopper helped design the legendary Mark series of computers at Harvard University. (Take a look at the ...

Kurt Beyer, author of “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age,” suggests that Hopper achieved so much attention and even “celebrity” late in life because a Republican Congressman from ...

We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on ... Hopper retired at age 60 from the Naval Reserve in 1966 with the rank of commander but was subsequently recalled to active duty ...

Grace Hopper, known as “the first lady of software,” is celebrated for her computer genius, with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 107th birthday. The doodle would have been deeply ...

Grace Hopper worked on early room-size computers, creating COBOL language. Dec. 9, 2013— -- In an age of smartphones and tablets, it can be hard to imagine a time when the typical computer ...

Grace Hopper: Top 10 facts about computer scientist honoured by Google Doodle. Her work remains part of everyday life, but very few know about Grace Hopper's work and impact on computing.

Today’s Google doodle honors Grace Hopper, the late, great computer scientist who was known as the “queen of software.” Had she not died in 1992, Hopper would have turned 107 today.