In today's male-dominated computer programming industry, it's easy to forget that a woman — Grace Hopper — helped usher in the computer revolution. During World War II, Hopper left a teaching job at ...
On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...
Adm. Grace Hopper, one of the unsung heroes of women in tech, invented the first “compiler,” a software that translates programming language into numbers a computer understands, in 1952. It's a day of ...