Grace Hopper worked on early room-size computers, creating COBOL language. Dec. 9, 2013— -- In an age of smartphones and tablets, it can be hard to imagine a time when the typical computer ...

Did you know that Computer Science Education week (CS Ed Week) and the 'Hour of Code' movement are celebrated every year during the week of Grace Hopper's birthday? Due to the extent of Grace Hopper’s ...

Last Monday, Google took the opportunity to celebrate the 107 th birthday of Grace Hopper, the pioneer computer scientist who gave us COBOL and the term “debugging.” She is much more than just a ...

Grace Hopper, known as “the first lady of software,” is celebrated for her computer genius, with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 107th birthday. The doodle would have been deeply ...

Monday's Google Doodle honors Grace Hopper, a groundbreaking computer scientist who also attained the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. Today would have been Hopper's 107th birthday. She died in ...

So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy will name its future cyber building after Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral, the academy's superintendent announced ...

Today's Google Doodle pays homage to Grace Hopper, the woman who helped design one of the first modern programming languages. Hopper was a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and in 1959 she helped create COBOL—a ...

Not only a pioneer in the field of computer programming, Grace Hopper was the oldest active-duty commissioned officer in the US Navy at the time of her retirement. While serving in the Navy Reserves, ...

At the Grace Hopper Celebration of women in tech, young female computer science majors abound. They say they're ready to fight for a place in the field. Erin Carson covered internet culture, online ...