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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of…
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science · U.S. naval officer and computer scientist (1906–1992) · mathematician · naval officer · computer scientist · university teacher · programmer · physicist · also Grace Hopper, Grace Murray Hopper, Grace M. Hopper, Admiral Hopper, Grace Brewster Murray, Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
Born 9 December 1906 · Died 1 January 1992 · Q11641
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translated mathematical notation into machine code. Manipulating symbols was fine for mathematicians but it was no good for data processors who were not symbol manipulators. Very few people are really symbol manipulators. If they are, they become professional mathematicians, not data processors. It
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2016).
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“translated mathematical notation into machine code. Manipulating symbols was fine for mathematicians but it was no good for data processors who were not symbol manipulators. Very few people are really symbol manipulators. If they are, they become professional mathematicians, not data processors. It”
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The NSA released a 90-minute talk in 1982 by Hopper in two parts
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) dedicated a plaque at the University of Pennsylvania in honor of invention the A-0 compiler, that functioned as a linker/loader, by Grace Hopper during her tim
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A satellite named after her (ÑuSat 20 or "Grace", COSPAR 2021-059AU) was launched into space
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Google named its new undersea network cable 'Grace Hopper'
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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Hopper for 1959
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Published “Drug repurposing: progress, challenges and recommendations” in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery — cited 4,250 times.
Hopper was posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom for her accomplishments in the field of computer science
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Was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2016).
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Hopper received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in recognition of her remarkable contributions to the field of computer science
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One of the nine competition fields at the FIRST Robotics Competition world championship is named for Hopper
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1994).
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“I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.”
Died 1992-01-01.
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“It's just like planning a dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it's ready when you need it. Programming requires patience and the ability to handle detail. Women are 'naturals' at computer programming.”
“I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.”
“At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But there isn't any reason for printing them. The next generation growing up with the computers will change that.”
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1991).
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Received the National Medal of Technology
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Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1988).
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (1987).
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Awarded Washington Award (1987).
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Won Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1985).
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Calling it the Grace Murray Hopper Center for Computer Learning
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Via the Appointments Clause by President Ronald Reagan
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Awarded Ada Lovelace Award (1983).
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Awarded ACM Distinguished Service Award (1983).
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Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1979).
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Awarded Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (1973).
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Awarded Fellow of the British Computer Society (1973).
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Awarded Legionnaire of Legion of Merit (1973).
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Won Wilbur Cross Medal (1972).
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But was again asked to return to active duty in 1972
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By the Association for Computing Machinery
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Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1970).
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Awarded Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (1964).
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Participated in the CODASYL consortium, helping to create a machine-independent programming language called COBOL, which was based on English words
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Eckert–Mauchly chose Hopper to lead their department for automatic programming, and she led the release of some of the first compiled languages like FLOW-MATIC
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Hopper was named the company's first director of automatic programming
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Hopper's work was influenced by the Laning and Zierler system, which was the first compiler to accept algebraic notation as input
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Had an operational link-loader, which at the time was referred to as a compiler
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Joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part of the team that developed the UNIVAC I computer
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Hopper became an employee of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician and joined the team developing the UNIVAC I
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Her associates discovered a moth that was stuck in a relay and impeding the operation of the computer
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And was assigned to the Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard University as a lieutenant, junior grade
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As a member of the Harvard Mark I team, led by Howard H
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Hopper obtained a leave of absence from Vassar and was sworn into the United States Navy Reserve; she was one of many women who volunteered to serve in the WAVES
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Studied at Yale University, Doctor of Philosophy (1934).
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And was promoted to associate professor in 1941
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Grace Murray married New York University professor Vincent Foster Hopper (1906–1976); they divorced in 1945
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Studied at Yale University, master's degree (1928–1930).
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Studied at Vassar College, bachelor's degree (1924–1928).
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With a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her master's degree at Yale University in 1930
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Studied at Wardlaw-Hartridge School (1923–1924).
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Born 1906-12-09.
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