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Born
Born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City. -
Taught Mathematics at Vassar
Taught mathematics at Vassar while attending the doctorate program at Yale . -
Graduated from Yale
Grace Hopper was the 11th woman to graduate from Yale with a math doctorate. -
The Beginning of WWII
The start of World War II inspired Grace Hopper to join the US Naval Reserve. -
Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project
Hopper was commissioned as a lieutenant, given her background as a mathematician she was assigned to a project hosted at Harvard. It is at Harvard that Grace Hopper would learn to program the Mark I. -
Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation
Grace Hopper joins EMCC and earned her respect for her technical talents, gender aside. -
Compiler For Computer Languages
Grace Hopper and her coworkers created a the first compiler for computer languages. This was known as FLOW-MATIC. -
Building Block for Further Developments
Grace Hopper's work for the first computer compiler lead the way for the development of Common Business Oriented Language or COBOL. -
COBOL
IBM announced that COBOL would be their primary development language. -
COBOL
A standardized version of COBOL was approved by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for commercial use. -
WIdley Used Programming Language
By 1970, COBOL had become the most widely used programming language in the world. -
Retirement
At the age of 76, Grace Hopper retires from the Navy. She was also the oldest serving officer in the service. -
National Medal of Technology
Due to her work in the computer industry, Grace Hopper became the first female recipient of this honor. -
Died
Buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. -
Modern Programming
While many organizations still use COBOL and training is on the rise, the lack of skills and burdensome text-based code is beginning to be replaced or integrated with more modern coding languages, such as Java ( created in 1995), .NET, and C++.