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  1. Grace Hopper College is a residential college of Yale University, opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. It was originally named Calhoun College after US Vice President John C. Calhoun , but renamed in 2017 in honor of computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper .

  2. An Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Grace Hopper's expertise was of such importance that she was called out of retirement to work on computing problems for the Navy. Both before and throughout her retirement, she was highly sought-after as a lecturer and after-dinner speaker. 7/1/96 "Comp Science Grace Hopper 1906-1992 Augusta Byron 1815-1853"

  3. Grace Brewster Murray was born in New York City in 1906. She entered Vassar in 1924, concentrating in physics and mathematics. According to Hopper, most of the women at Vassar during that time had no other goal than to get married, and those who sought careers solely looked to teaching. Hopper herself envisioned a future as an actuary or a ...

  4. Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01310-9. Marx, Christy (2003). Grace Hopper: the first woman to program the first computer in the United States. Women hall of famers in mathematics and science. New York: Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8239-3877-3. Norman, Rebecca ...

  5. Grace Hopper: Trailblazing computer scientist, inventor of COBOL, and US Navy admiral. ... Born in New York City in 1906, ... (34). She had been teaching at Vassar College, but volunteered for the ...

  6. Dec 11, 2017 · “Grace Hopper [GHC] was an incredible experience. I never thought I would be able to see over 100 women in tech in a room, let alone 18,000,” said Ashley Dvorsky, a software engineering senior. In 1994, Anita Borg, computer scientist and founder of the Institute for Women in Technology, co-founded GHC, which was inspired by Grace Murray Hopper.

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  8. 1906-1992 Computerized the U.S. Navy Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born on December 9, 1906, in New York City. She showed an early interest in mathematics and science, and she attended Vassar College, where she was one of the few women studying engineering. After graduating from Vassar, Hopper went on to earn a Ph.D. in […]

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