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She was born in 1906 in New York
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Graduated college with a bachelors degree in math and physics from Vassar
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Grace went to Yale to pursue a Masters degree in 1930 and a doctorate 1934
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Grace Hopper enlisted in the Navy and became a naval officer
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In 1944 she became the lieutenant Was a scientific bureau of ordnance computation project at Harvard. This was were she worked on the Mark I.
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Designed a data Compiler that can incorporate mathematical formulas and then Make it into computer code
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Developed an english language data compiler.
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Elected to the Institute of electronic and electrical engineers
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In 1966 wanted to retire but was recalled to improve the naval computer language
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Named the first computer science man of the year
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Won the legion of merit in
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The oldest serving naval officer and retired from the Navy
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She received won the Nation medal of technology given to her by President George Bush.
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She died on January 1 1992
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She received the presidential medal of freedom in 2016