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Hopper graduated from Vassar College and earned degrees in physics and mathematics. It is also notable to mention that she was in Pi Beta Kappa.
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Hopper went to Yale University and got her Master's Degree in mathematics.
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In 1931 Hopper returned to Vassar College and began to teach there. While she was teaching, she was also pursuing her PhD at Yale University.
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Grace got her PhD in math and mathematical physics.
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She was assigned to the Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard.
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At Harvard she worked with Howard Aiken who invented the Mark l and Grace helped program it.
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Hopper helped develop Mark 2 and 3.
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Hopper referred to a computer problem as "bug" and this is where this term comes from.
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Hopper asks for regular commission and upon being denied, she leaves.
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Hopper and her team developed the A-0.
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Hopper and her team develop the Flow-Matic which is a big things because it was the first computer language in English.
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Hopper made COBOL popular in the military and for private sector usage.
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President George Bush awarded Hopper this very notable award.
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Grace Hopper dies in 1992.
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President Barack Obama her this award.
