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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A visionary who early on recognized the computer's potential for commercial applications, Hopper devoted her career to developing software tools that were easier to use. Her work in the U.S. Navy and ...

Nvidia chips take their names from notable mathematicians and scientists. The company has a history of naming products after STEM pioneers. Here's a look at some of the historical figures whose work ...

For decades, women have been meaningful contributors in the technology industry. Some of the earliest contributions were from Dr. Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral, whose ...

Grace Murray Hopper was born in New York City in 1906 and attended Vassar College before receiving her PhD in mathematical physics from Yale University in 1934, returning there to teach on graduating ...

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 ...