Captain Grace Murray Hopper is presented with a plaque by David M. Smith, left, headmaster of Brewster Academy, as Kenneth Olsen, founder and president of Digital Corp., looks on, at the ceremony to dedicated a computer learning center in her name at the high school

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Captain Grace Murray Hopper is presented with a plaque by David M. Smith, left, headmaster of Brewster Academy, as Kenneth Olsen, founder and president of Digital Corp., looks on, at the ceremony to dedicated a computer learning center in her name at the high school

1983

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6395375

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

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11614433

National Archives at College Park

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nt1htb (person)

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...