Captain Grace Murray Hopper is congratulated by a guest at the conclusion of the ceremony to dedicate a computer learning center in her name at Brewster Academy

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Captain Grace Murray Hopper is congratulated by a guest at the conclusion of the ceremony to dedicate a computer learning center in her name at Brewster Academy

1983

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6395381

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Wolfeboro State: New Hampshire (NH) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Rick Dixon Release Status: Released to Public

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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-l...