Grace Hopper worked on early room-size computers, creating COBOL language. Dec. 9, 2013— -- In an age of smartphones and tablets, it can be hard to imagine a time when the typical computer ...

Did you know that Computer Science Education week (CS Ed Week) and the 'Hour of Code' movement are celebrated every year during the week of Grace Hopper's birthday? Due to the extent of Grace Hopper’s ...

Last Monday, Google took the opportunity to celebrate the 107 th birthday of Grace Hopper, the pioneer computer scientist who gave us COBOL and the term “debugging.” She is much more than just a ...

Grace Hopper, known as “the first lady of software,” is celebrated for her computer genius, with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 107th birthday. The doodle would have been deeply ...

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ’34 Ph.D., known affectionately as “Amazing Grace,” would have been 109 years old today. Inventor of the first computer compiler, she was a pioneer of women in STEM ...

Monday's Google Doodle honors Grace Hopper, a groundbreaking computer scientist who also attained the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. Today would have been Hopper's 107th birthday. She died in ...

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 ...

So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

Today's Google Doodle pays homage to Grace Hopper, the woman who helped design one of the first modern programming languages. Hopper was a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and in 1959 she helped create COBOL—a ...

Known for her achievements as one of America’s early computer scientists, this US Navy luminary’s pioneering work earned her the nicknames Amazing Grace and Grandma COBOL. Born to Walter Fletcher ...