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Grace Hopper: A Visionary Woman

The Grace Hopper Awards Luncheon is named after Dr. Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992). Known as the "mother of the computer" for her pioneering advancements in technology, Dr. Hopper was the first female admiral in the US Navy. The Annual Grace Hopper Awards Luncheon honors women, like Hopper, who provide SGS girls with positive role models.

Dr. Hopper has been credited with devising the first computer compiler and co-developing COBOL, the Common Business-Oriented Language. Her outstanding contributions to computer science greatly benefited academia, industry, and the military. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College and earned an MA and a PhD in Mathmatics at Yale. She joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943 as part of WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) and was assigned to the Bureau of Ordinance Computation Project at Harvard University.

In 1949, while still a consultant and lecturer for the U.S. Naval Reserve, she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (which eventually became part of Unisys). After retirement from the Navy in 1986, she became a senior consultant to Digital Equipment Corporation, and continued working well into her eighties.

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