Grace+Hopper,+Computer+Pioneer

[[image:Quill_and_ink.png]]Historical Biography
[|Admiral Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist], from San Diego Supercomputer Center

[|Amazing Grace Hopper, Thanks for the iPad!]from the Navy Office of Information

[|Grace Hopper, Computing Pioneer], Harvard Gazette (December 2014)

Accomplishments
Worked on the first computer, Harvard Mark I

Headed the team that led to the creation of COBOL, a programming language

See [|Grace Hopper and the First Computer Debug Bug]

[|Computer Programming Used to be Women's Work,] Smithsonian (October 7, 2013)

Oral History of Captain Grace Hopper, December 1980 from the Computer History Museum

[[image:resourcesforhistoryteachers/Multimedia.png]]Multimedia Resources
Grace Hopper's Appearance on the David Letterman Show when she was 80 years old

[|Grace Hopper to Programmers: Mind Your Nanoseconds!]

[|The Queen of Code f]rom FiveThirtyEight (January 28, 2015)

[|Author Kurt Beyer Discusses his Book:] //Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age//





Teaching Resources
[|Grace Hopper Debugging Activity]

Click here for entry on [|USS Hopper], a guided missile destroyer named after Grace Hopper.

Go here for the website of The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
 * We Went to the Grace Hopper Celebration. Here is What We're Bringing Back, from the New York Times Developers


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-10-29 at 11.53.04 AM.png width="49" height="47"]]See United States History II.30 for more on technological change since World War II **