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Grace Hopper foi à Hartridge School em Plainfield, Nova Jersei. Foi inicialmente rejeitada no processo de admissão no Vassar College aos 16 anos (suas notas em latim eram baixas), sendo admitida no ano seguinte. Graduou-se em 1928 como bacharel em Matemática e Física e, em 1930, concluiu seu mestrado na Yale University.
Jun 8, 2018 · Grace Hopper. With the longest active military career, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was also known as "Amazing Grace" and "Grand Old Lady of Software." She played an instrumental role in the development of the COBOL computer programming language. Grace Hopper, who rose through Navy ranks to become a rear admiral at age eighty-two, is ...
Grace Murray Hopper Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. During her lifetime as a leader in the field of software development concepts, she contributed to the transition from primitive programming techniques to the use of sophisticated compilers.
Grace Hopper embodied all of those descriptions and more, but perhaps what defined her as much as anything else was the pride she had in wearing the Navy uniform for 43 years. Ironically, Rear Adm. Grace Hopper — “Amazing Grace” as she was known — had to fight to get into the Navy.
Grace under pressure. By Peggy A. Kidwell, Peggy Kidwell and Amelia Grabowski September 25, 2018. On December 7, 1941, two days before her 35th birthday, Grace Murray Hopper, an associate professor of mathematics at Vassar College, was sitting in her study surrounded by books and a small radio when the attack on Pearl Harbor was announced.
Mar 9, 2020 · Guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) proudly bears the name of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, who was a pioneer in the field of computer science. Hopper was born on 9 December 1906 in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College in 1928, earned her master’s degree in 1930 from Yale University, and PhD in 1934. In December 1943, she entered the U.S. Naval Reserve and attended ...
Jan 1, 1992 · Grace Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray, the oldest of three children. Her father, Walter Murray, was an insurance broker while her mother, Mary Van Horne, had a love of mathematics which she passed on to her daughter. Both Grace's parents believed that she and her sister should have an education of the same quality as her brother.
