Who is Grace Hopper?

Grace was born on December 9, 1906, in New York.  In 1959, at the ‘Conference of Data Systems Languages’, Hopper was the technical consultant of the committee. She along with her colleagues defined COBOL, or ‘Common Business-Oriented Language’, which is till date one of the most famous business languages. Grace took a leave from ‘Sperry Corporation’ in 1967, to serve in the Navy. Later in the same year, she was called to service as a leader in ‘Naval Data Automation Command’. For ten years after that, Grace was the ‘Director of Navy Programming Languages Group’. In 1973, she was promoted to the position of Captain. During her years in Navy, she was also called to create and standardize communication among different computer languages. In 1986, Hopper retired as a rear admiral. She was the oldest serving officer in service. Grace led the team which invented COBOL or Common-Business Oriented Language, one of the user-friendly computer software programs which can be used for business purpose. Though she did not invent the language, she definitely encouraged its adaptation.Awards & Achievements. In 1969, Grace was awarded the first ‘Computer Science Man-of-the-Year Award’ from ‘Data Processing Management Association’. In 1991, she was awarded the ‘National Medal of Technology’. She was the first woman recipient of this honour.

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