Adm. Grace Hopper, one of the unsung heroes of women in tech, invented the first “compiler,” a software that translates programming language into numbers a computer understands, in 1952. It's a day of ...

Not long ago, people thought computers couldn’t communicate in English! Dr. Grace Hopper put that notion to rest. She also wrote the first computer manual. Trained in mathematics and mathematical ...

Today’s Google Doodle is of Grace Hopper, an esteemed Navy Rear Admiral with landmark achievements in computer science. Here’s 5 Fast Facts. In 1952, Grace wrote the first computer compiler. While ...

Grace Hopper in her office. The world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, was born in 1815 to the poet Lord Byron and his wife. A highly imaginative young woman with a mind for numbers, ...

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and mathematician and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy will name its future cyber building after Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral, the academy’s superintendent announced ...

The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), an annual event produced by AnitaB.org, is the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists. This September, 18 computing students from Miami ...

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