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Grace Hopper was born in New York City 1906
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Graduated from Vassar College B.A. 1928 in mathematics and physics
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Earned her Masters degree at Yale in mathematics in 1930
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Married New York University professor Vincent Foster Hopper 1930 until their divorce in 1945.
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1934 Earned Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale
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Grace joined the Naval Reserve in 1943 after the Pearl Harbor attack. She was initially rejected for height and age requirements but received a waiver.
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Assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance’s Computation Project at Harvard University (1944) working on Mark I under the guidance of Howard Aiken
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Hopper was hired by Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician and joined the team developing the UNIVAC
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Grace developed the first compiler called A-0, which translated mathematical code into machine-readable code
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1956 developed Flow-Matic, the first English-language data-processing compiler writing programs in words, rather than symbols.
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1959 participated in Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), the goal of which was to develop a common business language which eventually led to COBOL
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Received Yale’s Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal awarded to outstanding alumni 1972
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In 1985 Grace Hopper was the first woman to achieve the rank of rear admiral
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In 1991, President George Bush awarded Hopper the National Medal of Technology “for her pioneering accomplishments in the development of computer programming languages that simplified computer technology and opened the door to a significantly larger universe of users;” she was the first woman to receive the nation’s highest technology award as an individual
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Died January 1st 1992 in Arlington Virginia, buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery
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In 1997, the guided missile destroyer, USS Hopper, was commissioned by the Navy in San Francisco
