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Grace Murray Hopper was born on December 9th, 1906 in New York City. She attended Vassar College and graduated in 1928. She went on to receive a PhD in Mathematics from Yale University in 1934. She worked at Vassar until 1943 when she joined the US Naval Reserve.
Commissioned as a Lieutenant (junior grade), Hopper was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance. During this project, she became quite involved with the very new invention of the computer. For more than the next four decades, Grace Hopper was the forefront of the computer and programming language progress. Just two of her accomplishments include being one of the inventors of the computer language "COBOL" and beginning the term "bug" for describing an error in a computer program.
When she left active duty after World War II, Hopper was a member of the faculty at Harvard. She retained her Naval Reserve status and obtained the rank of Commander before retiring in 1966. She was recalled to duty in 1967 and was assigned as Director, Naval Programming Languages group for the Chief of Naval Operations' staff. She gained rankings to Captain in 1973, Commodore in 1983, and finally Rear Admiral in 1985. Retiring in 1986, Admiral Hopper remained active in the computer industry until her death on January 1st, 1992.
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