Grace Hopper By laurenlawson 1934 Received a Master's and Ph.D from Yale 1943 Hopper joins the U.S. Naval Reserve 1944 Assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University 1949 Joins the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation 1950 Development of UNIVAC I with help from Hopper 1952 Developed A-0 (computer language "compiler") 1953 Hopper and her team develop Flow-Matic 1959 Hopper promotes COBOL to the military and private sector 1959 Hopper took part in the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL) 1966 Becomes a Navy Commander 1972 Grace Hopper receives Yale’s Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal 1973 Hopper was named a distinguished fellow of the British Computer Society 1987 Awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal 1991 President Bush gives Hopper the National Medal of Technology 2016 Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
