Notice a woman punching in code on a mammoth computer on Google today? That would be Grace Hopper, a computing pioneer known as the "mother" of Cobol (Common Business-Oriented Language), one of the ...

So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

Bill Gates will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 22nd, but he wouldn't be where he is without two of the other honorees, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton. They developed the ...

Today's Google Doodle pays homage to Grace Hopper, the woman who helped design one of the first modern programming languages. Hopper was a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and in 1959 she helped create COBOL—a ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Google on Monday celebrated the birthday of computer programming legend Grace Hopper with a Google Doodle. Hopper's contributions to computer science are aplenty but she is perhaps best known for ...

Today’s Google Doodle is of Grace Hopper, an esteemed Navy Rear Admiral with landmark achievements in computer science. Here’s 5 Fast Facts. In 1952, Grace wrote the first computer compiler. While ...

When students walk into New York City’s Grace Hopper Academy to learn about software engineering, they are greeted by a photo of the school’s namesake, a Navy admiral in a Rosie the Riveter pose ...

Who better to teach about nanoseconds than Grace Hopper, navy admiral and inventor of the first compiler? [Flowing Data] Share this story Subscribe and interact with our community, get up to date with ...