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Jun 14, 2024 · Grace Hopper was born in New York, New York, in 1906. She held a BS in mathematics and physics from Vassar College (1928) and an MS (1930) and PhD in mathematics (1934) from Yale University.
Jun 12, 2024 · Or did you attend Grace Hopper - and you're wondering if it's still of good quality? I'm confused. (not the first time)
Jun 10, 2024 · She attended Vassar College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1928 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics. She earned her master’s in mathematics at Yale in 1930, got married to Vincent Hopper, a professor at New York University in 1930 and began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931.
Jun 6, 2024 · At Yale University, Grace Hopper College (formerly known as Calhoun College) was renamed in her honor in 2017. This renaming acknowledges her groundbreaking contributions to computer science and her role as a trailblazer for women in technology.
Jun 9, 2024 · A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution.
Jun 23, 2024 · Grace Hopper was a computer pioneer. After developing the first compiler (A-0), she proposed the idea of writing programs in words, rather than symbols. Although the idea was shot down by her contemporaries as impossible, Hopper continued working on an English-language compiler, and by 1956 her team was running FLOW-MATIC, the first programming ...
Jun 19, 2024 · She studied math in college and worked as a math professor when very few women entered the field. Then World War II started. Because she wanted to help win the war, she enlisted in the US Navy.
