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	Grace Hopper - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Grace hopper taught afterwards until 1943 at the Vassar college mathematics, last in the rank of a Associate professor, and attained a doctorate 1934 to the Yale University.
		Grace of hopper dream was it to become old 94 years in order to experience 31 December 1999 and to have experienced thus the whole century of full changes, which she codesigned considerably.
		You in honours are lent the Grace Murray hopper Award.
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	Remembering Grace Murray Hopper: A Legend in Her Own Time
		Hopper's love of gadgets caused her to immediately fall for the biggest gadget she'd ever seen, the fifty-one foot long, 8 foot high, 8 foot wide, glass-encased mound of bulky relays, switches and vacuum tubes called the Mark I. This miracle of modern science could store 72 words and perform three additions every second.
		Grace Hopper was a keynote speaker for the conference in its earlier years, drawing a standing-room-only crowd.
		Hopper enchanted her audiences with tales of the computer evolution and her uncanny ability to predict the trends of the future.
	www.chips.navy.mil /links/grace_hopper/file2.htm (1971 words)

	Grace Hopper - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by 1941 she was an associate professor.
		Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of 1966.
		Throughout much of her later career, Grace Hopper was much in demand as a speaker at various computer-related events.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Grace_Hopper (889 words)

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		Probably Grace's best known relationship to ACM is via the award that was established in her name in 1971 by the UNIVAC Division of' the Sperry Rand Corporation and is administered by ACM.
		Grace Murray Hopper was born in New York City on December 9, 1906.
		Hopper is known for coining the term “bug” from an instance when a moth became lodged in a circuit causing a glitch in the first large-scale computer.
	www.lycos.com /info/grace-hopper--computers.html (379 words)

	Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
		Hopper was the eldest of three children, followed by sister Mary, 3 years younger and brother Roger, 5 years younger.
		Grace Hopper died in her sleep on New Years day, not in the year in which she wished but in 1992.
		Grace Hopper lived through an entire century of change this is why she always lectured not to fear change.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/Hopper.Danis.html (1771 words)

	Remembering Grace Hopper
		Grace was speaking at a group meeting of a professional computer organization. I believe it was the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
		Grace, who was nearly 70 years old when I saw her, was a retired US Navy officer.
		The Grace Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding young computer professional of the year.
	www.b-eye-network.com /view/1849 (1019 words)

	Grace Hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City.
		She married Vincent Hopper in 1930 and was divorced in 1945.
		Grace Hopper was very proud of her service in the United States Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grace_Hopper (1537 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper
		Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born in New York City on December 9, 1906, to Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horne Murray.
		Hopper taught herself how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in octal, a number system with base eight that uses digits 0 through 7, in order to facilitate the process.
		In September, 1991, she was awarded the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in engineering and technology.
	www.agnesscott.edu /LRIDDLE/WOMEN/hopper.htm (1523 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		The achievements of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper which, most notably, include the invention of the compiler, cemented her place at the forefront of the computing revolution that began in the early 1940s.
		Born Grace Brewster Murray on December 9, 1906 in New York City, she was the eldest of three children, and shared with her mother an affinity for mathematics.
		Hopper retired from the Naval Reserves in 1966; however, in 1967 she took military leave from Sperry when she was called back into active duty to help the Navy standardize high-level computing languages.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/hopper.html (818 words)

	Hopper biography
		Hopper was awarded her doctorate by Yale University in 1934 for a thesis New Types of Irreducibility Criteria which was supervised by Oystein Ore. Hopper attended New York University as a Vassar Faculty Fellow in 1941.
		Hopper's reason for designing a compiler was, she wrote later, because she was lazy and hoped that the introduction of compilers would allow the computer programmer to return to being a mathematician.
		When Hopper retired from the Navy in August 1986, at 80 years of age, she was the oldest active duty officer in the United States.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Hopper.html (1747 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper
		Grace Murray Hopper was born in New York, New York on December 9, 1906.
		Grace Murray graduated from Vassar with a B.A. in mathematics in 1928.
		Admiral Grace Murray Hopper had come from a family with military traditions and it came as no surprise when she resigned her Vassar post to join the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) in December 1943.
	www.mtsu.edu /~amelton/h.htm (1048 words)

	RADM Grace Murray Hopper
		Hopper, nicknamed "Grand Old Lady of Software" and "Amazing Grace", appeared to be making a reluctant exit as she was honored on the USS Constitution, the Navy's oldest commissioned warship.
		Hopper's retirement ceremony, described as the grandest ever held on the old ship, featured a band, a bouquet of 43 roses - one for each year of her Navy career - and seamen scampering up rigging to salute the diminutive admiral.
		The guided missile destroyer USS Hopper, DDG 70, christened on 6 January 1996 and commissioned on 6 September 1997, was named for Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, whose pioneering spirit in the field of computer technology led the Navy into the age of computers.
	www.milhist.net /global/hopper.html (582 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper
		Hopper was one of the pioneers in the development of the electronic computer.
		Hopper was a remarkable woman who grandly rose to the challenges of programming the first computers.
		Hopper was born in December 1906 in New York City.
	www.cordah.co.uk /grace_murray_hopper.html (292 words)

	The Scientist : Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a four-decade veteran of the United States Navy and a mathematician who made pioneering contributions to computer programming, died New Year's Day at her home in Arlington, Va. She was 85 years old.
		At the time of her death, Hopper was employed as a senior consultant at Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Mass.; until the spring of 1990, she was actively representing the company at industry forums.
		Last September, Hopper was awarded the National Medal of Technology for her contributions to the development of computer programming languages.
	www.the-scientist.com /article/display/11176 (347 words)

	History's Great Engineers: Grace Murray Hopper by Jennifer Gee - Engineer Girl
		Hopper applied her computer engineering knowledge to the navy, serving during World War II as an around-the-clock engineer to operate Mark I, a computer used to accurately aim naval artillery.
		Perhaps the most alluring attribute of Hopper's engineering genius is that she is a role model for all women engineers; she perseveres in reaching her goals, and she uses her imagination to lead her through her endeavors.
		Hopper was analytical in the conception of COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), as she had the foresight to realize that the world needed an understandable, universal programming language compatible on all computers.
	www.engineergirl.org /?id=3451 (417 words)

	Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
		Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was one of the most influential women in the world of computer science.
		Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York City.
		Grace Murray Hopper, instead of the open Dumas polygon, introduced the closed convex polygon, which is applied to the deduction of irreducibility criteria.
	www.mathsci.appstate.edu /~sjg/wmm/student/hopper/hopperp.htm (1768 words)

	Grace Hopper Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hopper had an edge over everyone in the computer business because she believed that there was always a way to improve on the technology.
		Hopper and her team extended this improvement on binary code with the development of her first compiler, the A-O. The A-O series of compilers translated symbolic mathematical code into machine code, and allowed the specification of call numbers assigned to the collected programming routines stored on magnetic tape.
		Hopper believed that the major obstacle to computers in non-scientific and business applications was the dearth of programmers for these far from user-friendly new machines.
	tergestesoft.com /~eddysworld/hopper.htm (2186 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper
		Grace Brewster Murray was born on December 9, 1906 in New York City.
		Admiral Hopper became the third person to program the Mark I. She received the Naval Ordnance Development Award for her pioneering applications programming success on the Mark I, Mark II, and Mark III computers.
		Admiral Hopper and her team extended this improvement on binary code with the development of her first compiler, the A-O. The A-O series of compilers translated symbolic mathematical code into machine code, and allowed the specification of call numbers assigned to the collected programming routines stored on magnetic tape.
	www.cs.yale.edu /homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html (1433 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper
		In 1966 Hopper was promoted by the Navy to commander, but she had reached the legal limit of twenty years for serving as a reservist and on December 31, 1966, she retired.
		In 1985, Grace Hopper was appointed Rear Admiral by President Ronald Reagan.
		Grace Hopper died in her sleep on January 1, 1992, at the age of eighty-five.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/hopper.html (1276 words)

	Hopper, Grace - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her answer was the compiler, a specialized program that translates instructions written in a programming language into the binary coding of machine language.
		Hopper returned to active duty with the Navy in 1967, charged with leading the effort to combine various versions of COBOL into USA Standard COBOL.
		Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference 2002.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hopperg1r.html (336 words)

	Pnuelin Wines Turing Award
		The ACM A.M. Turing Award is given annually for technical achievements in the field of computing deemed by a jury of leading professionals to be of lasting and significant importance to the computing community.
		Awarded on the basis of value and degree of service to the computing community.
		This new award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing.
	www.cra.org /CRN/html/9705/awards/none.5_3_t.shtml (346 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Grace Hopper was born in New York City as Grace Brewster Murray on December 9, 1906.
		The Murray family had a long military history and it was no surprise when Grace joined the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) in 1943.
		Admiral Grace Hopper rose to the rank of Captain in 1973 and to the rank of Rear Admiral in 1983.
	www.snc.edu /compsci/hopper/hopper.html (338 words)

	Grace Hopper
		Grace Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray, the oldest of three children.
		Her father, Walter Murray, was an insurance broker while her mother, Mary Van Horne, had a passion for mathematics which she passed on to her daughter.
		Hopper was awarded her doctorate by Yale University for a thesis New Types of Irreducibility Criteria which was supervised by Oystein Ore.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/hopper_grace.html (1903 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
		Hopper received numerous honours over the course of her lifetime.
		In September, 1991, she was awarded the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honour in engineering and technology.
		Admiral Hopper's perseverance and unconventional style led her to great achievements in all her professional endeavours.
	home.att.net /~rWorthington/Hall_of_Fame/Hopper_Grace.html (1343 words)

	Grace Hopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Admiral Grace Hopper was a distinguished naval officer and computer scientist.
		The first person to receive the computer sciences Man of the Year award from the Data Processing Management Association (1969), she is also known as "Amazing Grace".
		Hopper was a programmer on the world's first large-scale digital computer, Mark I. "It was 51 feet long, eight feet high, eight feet deep," she said.
	www.sdsc.edu /~woodka/hopper.html (304 words)

	The My Hero Project - Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
		Hopper isn’t just an inspiration to me; she is also an inspiration to the Navy.
		Hopper isn’t just a programmer, a computer wiz, and a math expert, she is also a great teacher.
		Grace Murray Hopper was a computer visionary and naval officer.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Hopper_MMS_ul (1694 words)

	Grace Murray Hopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Grace Hopper died in her sleep on New Year’s Day 1992.
		Grace pioneered the idea of a friendly computer programming language and without her persistence Visual Basic, Java, and C/C++ would not exist today.
		Therefore, when one hears the name “Grace Hopper” in the future, one should identify the name with one of the most important women and people involved in the development of the personal computer.
	www.rit.edu /~agw4756/imm/midtermproject/summary.html (268 words)

	Biography - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USN
		Grace often thought she took "the brunt of everything." In the book, she talks about the time she and a bunch of cousins were caught climbing a tree.
		Grace's grandfather on her mother's side, John Van Horne, was a senior civil engineer for the city of New York.
		Grace attended the Graham School and Schoonmakers School in New York City, both private schools for girls, where a large part of their time was spent teaching their students to be ladies.
	www.history.navy.mil /bios/hopper_grace.htm (8807 words)

	grace murray hopper cobol information -- grace murray hopper cobol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Pioneered work on the necessity for high-level programming languages, which she termed automatic programming, and wrote the A-O compiler, which heavily influenced the COBOL...
		Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Grace Murray Hopper, one of the pioneers of computer science, is generally credited with developments that led to COBOL, the programming language for business...
		Grace Murray Hopper: COBOL Computer Language Inventor Grace Murray Hopper was a curious child.
	www.cobolsees.info /gracemurrayhoppercobol (514 words)

	Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
		In 1991 she was awarded the National Medal of Technology "for her pioneering accomplishments in the development of computer programming languages that simplified computer technology and opened the door to a significantly larger universe of users." Admiral Hopper was born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City on December 9, 1906.
		Admiral Hopper retired from the navy in 1966, only to be recalled within a year to full-time active duty.
		She was honored by her peers on several occasions, including the first Computer Sciences "Man of the Year" award given by the Data Processing Management Association, and the "Contributions to Computer Science Education Award" given by the Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education of the ACM.
	www.angelfire.com /hi4/El7elow/grace.htm (491 words)

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