Grace
Hopper 1906-1992
Developed
the first compiler (A-0, later ARITH-MATIC, MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC) while
working at the Remington Rand corporation on the UNIVAC I.
Later
returned to the NAVY where she worked on COBOL and was eventually promoted to
Rear Admiral.
Grace
Hopper 1906-1992
Rear
Admiral Grace Hopper, US Navy, and other programmers at a UNIVAC console - 1957
Some
of Grace Hopper's Awards
She won the first "man of the
year" award from the Data Processing Management Association in 1969.
She became the first person from the
United States and the first woman of any nationality to be made a Distinguished
Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1973.
Upon her retirement she received the
Defense Distinguished Service Medal in 1986
She received the National Medal of
Technology in 1991.
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