About Grace Hopper
Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."
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Awards & Honors
Legionnaire of Legion of Merit
Computer History Museum Fellow
Ada Lovelace Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
ACM Distinguished Service Award
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
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Legion of Merit
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Meritorious Service Medal
National Women's Hall of Fame
World War II Victory Medal
American Campaign Medal
W. Wallace McDowell Award
National Defense Service Medal
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
Fellow of the British Computer Society
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
Washington Award
Wilbur Cross Medal
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
