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Grace Hopper is born December 9th, 1906 in New York City, New York.
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Grace Murray Graduates from Vassar College with a BA in Economics and Physics. -
Grace marries Vincent Foster Hopper -
Grace Hopper Earns her Master's Degree in Mathematics from Yale University. -
Grace Hopper earns her Ph.D. from Yale University in Mathematics. -
Grace Hopper tries to join the United States Navy and is rejected due to her age. Instead, she joins the Navy Reserve instead. -
Grace Hopper starts working at Harvard University for Howard Aiken on the Mark I team. She becomes one of the first programmers. -
Grace Hopper started working on the first computer manual in 1944 when she went to work on the Mark I team at Harvard University, and it was published in 1946. -
Grace Hopper coins the term "de-bugging" while working on the Mark II at Harvard University. -
Grace Hopper joins the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corperation and goes to work on the UNIVAC I computer. -
Grace Hopper creates the first computer complier named A-0. -
Grace Hopper is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. -
Grace Hopper works on FLOW-MATIC while at Remington-Rand, formerly the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
Grace Hopper is promoted to the rank of Commander in the United States Navy. -
Grace Hopper is promoted to the rank of Captain in the United States Navy. -
Grace Hopper is promoted to the rank of Commodore in the United States Navy, the rank of Commodore was later renamed Rear Admiral in 1985. -
Grace Hopper retires from the United States Navy in 1986. It should be noted that she had previously retired from the Navy on two occasions and had been recalled both times. -
Grace Hopper passed away in 1992 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. -
The United States Navy Commissions the USS Hopper DDG 70 in honor of Grace Hopper.