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Grace Hopper was born on December 9th, 1906 in New York, New York to her parents Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Van Horne (Brittanica). -
Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1928 (Brittanica). -
Grace Hopper earned her Master's Degree at Yale University in 1930. -
Grace Hopper married in 1930 to one and only husband Vincent Foster Hopper. They would later divorce in 1945. -
Grace Hopper earned her Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale in 1934. -
Grace Hopper graduated first of her class at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Smith College in Northampton. She was assigned to the Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard University as a junior-grade lieutenant. This was were she worked on the programming for the Mark I computer. -
Grace Hopper would work on the ENIAC here (Yale). -
Grace Hopper would work here and develop the UNIVAC I. She was also the UNIVAC director of Automatic Programming Development for Remington Rand. -
Grace Hopper would make the first compiler (Brittanica). -
Harper and her employees would make the first programming language, called COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) (Brittanica). -
Grace Hopper would be awarded this, which was the society's highest honor. -
Grace Hopper would receive her highest ranking as Commodore/Rear admiral in 1983, and it would be redesignated in 1985. -
Grace Hopper was awarded this and it is considered "the highest decoration given to those who did not participate in combat" (Norwood). -
Grace Hopper died in Arlington, Virginia, on January 1st, 1992. This was due to -
President Barack Obama would award Grace Hopper and 20 other women this medal. She would be awarded this 24 years after her death (Headrick 5).
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