1. Describe the personal life of Grace Hopper the mathematician in 2-3 paragraph

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1. Describe the personal life of Grace Hopper the mathematician in 2-3 paragraphs

- personal home town

- origins of her work

- interesting facts

use these sources if applicable:

Doc, T. (2016). Home. Retrieved from

            https://www.famousscientists.org/grace-      murray-hopper/

G. (1994). Grace Murray Hopper. Retrieved from

            http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html

J. (1999). Grace Brewster Murray Hopper. Retrieved from

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hopper.html

Marx, C. (2004). Grace Hopper: The first woman to program the first computer in the

United States. New York, NY: Rosen Pub.

Explanation / Answer

Grace hopper also known as Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York city and she was eldest of three children.
She spent her summer with her cousins in their cottage near Lake Wentworth which is in Wolfeboro , New Hampshire.
She was educated at two private schools which were solely for girls, namely Graham school and Schoonmakers School and both of these schools were in New York city.

Her origin of work started in 1944 where she was assigned to program one of the first program controlled computers known as Mark I.
In 1946, she was released from active duty and she joined Harvard faculty as a research fellow in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics at the Computation Laboratory and she used to work with Mark II and Mark III computers.
In 1949, when it was almost time for her three year fellowship at harvard to end, she decided to join the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation to help in designing and programming of UNIVAC I , which was the first commercial electronic computer.
In 1952, she developed the first compiler, A-O , which was a mathematically oriented single pass compiler and she later worked on B-O which was later known as Flow Matic and this was a precursor to COBOL.

Some interesting facts about grace hopper are,
Grace Hopper was the first woman to earn a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University in 1934,
Grace Hopper became the first female individual recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1991,
There is a naval ship names USS hopper that was commissioned in 1997, which was named in her honor and
Grace Hopper and her team created the first compiler for computer languages in 1952.

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