Today would have been the 107th birthday of pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper. Cobol, the language she helped create, still powers software used by businesses today.

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 ...

The credit for coming up with the basic idea goes not to Grace Hopper, although she contributed to the language and promoted it, but to Mary Hawes. She was a Burroughs Corporation programmer who ...

Yet Grace Hopper, the woman credited with establishing COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) as the language of business, would be pleased to know that 100 years after her birth, the language ...

Computing pioneer Grace Hopper is the star of a Google Doodle on Monday, the 107 anniversary of her birth. (Google screen capture) Google search engine users may want to take special note of ...

Nicknamed "Amazing Grace" by her subordinates, Grace Hopper was a pioneer in computer science and mathematics, as well as a decorated U.S. Navy Reserve veteran.

In 2013, Google celebrated Hopper’s 107th birthday with this this Doodle. Yale University’s Calhoun College was renamed Grace Hopper College in 2017 to honor “one of Yale’s most distinguished ...

In 1944, Grace Hopper, a 37-year-old math Ph.D., ... it was estimated that COBOL constituted about 240 billion out of the 300 billion lines of computer code in the whole world.) ...

August 1, 1967. The US Navy recalls Grace Murray Hopper to active duty. From 1967 to 1977, Hopper served as the director of the Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy's Office of Information ...

Grace Hopper: Google doodle for creator of Cobol computer language The American computer scientist was born 107 years ago and her pioneering work from the 1950s remains important to this day News ...

Grace Hopper "Grandma COBOL" Dons Google Doodle Glory. By ... Today, for example, they've made a beautiful illustration – an animated illustration, at that – of none other than Grace Hopper.

PHOTOS: ‘Amazing Grace’ Hopper. Hopper, who was nicknamed Amazing Grace, was co-inventor of the business-oriented programming language COBOL and was so key to the Navy’s computer work that ...