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Grace Brewster Murray was born in New York City. She was the first child of Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Van Horne.
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Grace Murray graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a BA in mathematics and physics.
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Grace Murray married Vincent Foster Hopper.
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Grace earned her Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University.
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Grace Hopper was sworn into the U.S. Naval Reserve and was assigned to the Bureau of Ordinance Computation Project at Harvard University.
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Grace joined a team, under the leadership of Howard Aikens, that was working on the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator otherwise know as MARK I.
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Grace is responsible for discovering the first computer "bug" - a moth causing an error in the MARK II.
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Grace left active service when the Navy declined her request for a regular position due to her age.
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Grace joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, in Philadelphia, where she helped develop the UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer in the US.
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Grace introduced the first compiler called A-O, which translated mathematical code into machine readable code.
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Grace's team created FLOW-MATIC, the first programming language to use word commands.
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Grace attended the Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL). The result was COBOL, which stands for "common business-oriented language."
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Grace Hopper became the first woman to be promoted to captain in the U.S. Navy.
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Grace was promoted again to Rear Admiral, by special Presidential appointment.
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Admiral Grace Hopper retired from the Navy, at the age of 79, after a career that spanned more than 42 years. She was the oldest serving officer in the U.S. armed forces.
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President George Bush awarded Grace Hopper the National Medal of Technology. She was the first female recipient of this honor.
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Grace Hopper died at the age of 86 years old.
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