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Grace Hopper

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Also known as Grace Murray Hopper, Grace M. Hopper, Admiral Hopper, Grace Brewster Murray, Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Grace Murray, Grace Brewster Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)

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Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and naval officer. Born in New York City, she was educated at Vassar College and Yale University, where her doctoral advisor was Øystein Ore. She served as a rear admiral in the United States Navy and participated in World War II. Her notable work includes FLOW-MATIC.

Hopper received several honors, including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her memberships included the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Archives of her work are held at the Computer History Museum, the National Museum of American History, the Charles Babbage Institute, and the Schlesinger Library.

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  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1993
Active to
1997
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
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Total plays
238

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5 total works indexed

  1. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,179x

  2. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    · 2016 · cited 9,060x

  3. Searching for MobileNetV3

    · 2019 · cited 8,593x

  4. Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells

    · 2017 · cited 7,153x

  5. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

    · 2012 · cited 6,164x

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Quotes

  • “From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.”
  • “At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But there isn't any reason for printing them. The next generation growing up with the computers will change that.”
  • “I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"”
  • “In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."”
  • “At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"”
  • “There's something you learn in your first boot-camp, or training camp: If they put you down somewhere with nothing to do, go to sleep — you don't know when you'll get any more.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."

Before joining the Navy, Hopper earned a Ph.D. in both mathematics and mathematical physics from Yale University and was a professor of mathematics at Vassar College. She left her position at Vassar to join the United States Navy Reserve during World War II. Hopper began her computing career in 1944 as a member of the Harvard Mark I team, led by Howard H. Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part of the team that developed the UNIVAC I computer. At Eckert–Mauchly she managed the development of one of the first COBOL compilers.

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