Today’s Google Doodle is of Grace Hopper, an esteemed Navy Rear Admiral with landmark achievements in computer science. Here’s 5 Fast Facts. In 1952, Grace wrote the first computer compiler ...

Her biography ‘Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age’ by [Kurt W. Beyer] is often considered a bit light on the biographical part but nevertheless a sound historical account of ...

Grace Hopper, who developed one of the first modern computer programming languages, has been honoured with a Google Doodle. By Lucy Kinder 09 December 2013 • 1:48pm ...

Grace Murray Hopper was born in New York City in 1906 and attended Vassar College before receiving her PhD in mathematical physics from Yale University in 1934, returning there to teach on graduating ...

Yet Grace Hopper, the woman credited with establishing COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) as the language of business, would be pleased to know that 100 years after her birth, ...

Grace Murray Hopper may have been ahead of her time. She certainly did things that were a little unusual for women of her day. She graduated from Vassar College in 1928 with a degree in math.

Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code Laurie Wallmark, illus. by Katy Wu. Sterling, $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4549-2000-7. In an upbeat biography, Wallmark ...

Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Richard Garwin all made significant contributions to the technology that envelops our lives and embody the quest for knowledge and life-long self learning ...

Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982). Related Stories UNIVAC: the troubled life of America's first computer ...

100 years of Grace Hopper Written by Colin Barker, Contributor Dec. 8, 2006 at 5:37 a.m. PT For most people who work in IT, the programming language Cobol is as dead as the dodo.