Connecting Standard: AP World History

Period 6.1  Science and the Environment

Grace Hopper Google Doodle

Biography (1906-1996)

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper: Pioneer Computer Scientist, from San Diego Supercomputer Center

Grace Hopper, Computing Pioneer, Harvard Gazette (December 2014)

Grace Hopper from National Women's History Museum

Grace Hopper (Women's Hall of Fame)

Accomplishments

Worked on the first computer, Harvard Mark I

• The Mark I at Harvard:  First Programmable Computer in the United States
• 51' long; 8' high; 8' deep
  

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

Grace Hopper at the UNIVAC keyboard, 1960

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

Romanian stamp, 2013

Multimedia Resources

Here is a quick youtube video outlining Hopper's life and accomplishments.

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 from FiveThirtyEight (January 28, 2015)

 Grace Hopper lecture  (Grace Hopper's lecture given at MIT Lincoln)

Author Kurt Beyer Discusses his Book: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age

Grace Murray Hopper Collection

• A photo collection of Grace Hopper throughout the years

USS Grace Hopper Guided Missile Destroyer

 Teaching and Learning 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