| WIE Pioneer |
Who: Grace Murray Hopper
What: Received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1934, developed the first computer compiler as a research fellow at Harvard’s Computation Laboratory. Hopper invented COBOL programming language, was the first women Admiral in US Navy, oldest person ever to retire from US Navy, invented the term “computer bug." Grace became a visionary about use of computers in the public sector and was the first US citizen to become a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society.
| Grace Murray Hopper | |
