Women's History Minute： ＂Grace Hopper＂

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper joined the Navy Waves in 1943 and the following year was commissioned as a lieutenant and was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University. Her team produced the Mark I, an early prototype of the electronic computer, and Hopper wrote a 500 page manual in which she outlined the fundamental operating principles of computing machines. After the end of World War II, while working at the Eckert Motchley Corporation, she invented the first computer compiler, a program that translates written instructions into codes that computers read directly, which led her to co-development of COBOL. During her career, Hopper attained the rank of commander in the U.S. Navy and in 1973 she was promoted to captain and eventually to rear admiral in 1985. you