Grace+Hopper

=Grace Hopper=

Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was a computer scientist and an achieved the rank of Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. She went to Vassar College and received a Master's degree in Mathematics from Yale. She was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery among our nation's heros.

She is notable for her work in computer science. In particular, her work on the first commercial computer, the UNIVAC I, computer languages COBOL and FORTRAN, and the compiler. Her vision was that of standardizing computer languages so that they could be portable and would compile to execute on any computing platform. That vision is the way that things operate today.

I have a connection with her in several ways:
 * she was a mathematics teacher and I aspire to be one
 * she was one of the first computer "geeks" and I am one
 * she was a sailor and I was one too (expect I don't have a ship named after me

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