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Grace earned a PhD in Mathematics at Yale University. She was the first woman to do so. -
She was compelled to join the war effort, so she enlists in the US Navy. -
Grace becomes commissioned in being a lieutenant and is assigned to the Bureau of Ordinance Project at Harvard University. At hard she meets a guy named Howard Aiken and decides to work with him and his team. The program was on the Mark l computer, writing a 561 page user manual for it. -
Grace coins, the first person to say it, the terms "bug" and "debugging" as they relate to computer programming. It was the result in the findings her team found, that an issue with the Mark ll was actually caused by a moth trapped on the inside. -
Grace began research with UNIVAC l with a computer corporation called Eckert - Mauchly. She encouraged the push for user friendly machines in order to advance the industry. -
Grace and her team invented the first compiler, which translates mathematical code into machine readable binary code. This will eventually allow developers to write programs for multiple computers at once. -
Grace hopper is integral to the invention of the programming language COBOL, which became the primary language for business applications as it was easier to use and understand. -
Grace Hopper has a famous speech talking about the future of computing in lecturing.
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Grace was elected to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) which was an award who have made an outstanding contributions to information processing systems in relation to computer science. -
She was then called to return to the Navy twice during this period, throughout the years 1966-1986. Grace was appointed Rear Admiral - Lower Half before finally retiring in 1986. -
Grace was the only woman and the only American that was distinguished as a member of the British Computer Society. -
Grace Hopper went on a talk show for the Lettermans late night show. It was around mainstream society that was just becoming dimly aware of the computer revolution.
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When she retired from the US Military, she continued to work in the computer industry and is even awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1991. She then passes away at the age of 85 on January 1st, 1992. -
She was known as "Amazing Grace" and "the First Lady of software" and this is because of all of her amazing accomplishments. -
After Grace Hopper's death her memory was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. This was because her remarkable contributions to the field of computer science.