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Society: SWE Main Category: Women in Engineering Sub Category: Computing Era: 1950-1959 DateCreated: 1959 University Lock Haven State: PA Zip: 17745 Country: USA Website: Creator: Hopper, Grace Murray
A curious child who dissembled the clocks in her parent's home, Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in mathematics and physics. She continued her education at Yale University by completing a masters and Ph.D. in mathematics. She then returned to Vassar to teach. During World War II, Hopper joined the Navy and was sworn into the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943. After training, she was commissioned as a lieutenant and assigned to the Bureau of Ordinance Computation Project at Harvard University. She became the third person to program the Harvard Mark I computer.
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Image Credit: Courtesy of Smithsonian Institute Image Caption: Grace Hopper sits at the UNIVAC Computer. Era_date_from: 1959
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A curious child who dissembled the clocks in her parent's home, Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in mathematics and physics. She continued her education at Yale University by completing a masters and Ph.D. in mathematics. She then returned to Vassar to teach. During World… Read More

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