Today’s Google Doodle is of Grace Hopper, an esteemed Navy Rear Admiral with landmark achievements in computer science. Here’s 5 Fast Facts. In 1952, Grace wrote the first computer compiler. While ...

Grace Murray Hopper was born in New York City in 1906 and attended Vassar College before receiving her PhD in mathematical physics from Yale University in 1934, returning there to teach on graduating ...

For most people who work in IT, the programming language Cobol is as dead as the dodo. Yet Grace Hopper, the woman credited with establishing Cobol as the language of business, would be pleased to ...

The late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a gifted mathematician and undisputed pioneer in computer programming, honored posthumously in 2016 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also very ...