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Grace Hopper Biography - Essay

Grace Hopper Biography

Grace Murray Hopper - A Life Story
It was 1906 in New York City when the great pioneer in data processing, Grace Murray Hopper, was born to the parents Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horn Murray. Even as a young child Grace loved learning about mathematics and the new technological advances that were coming out, mostly because of her surrounding environment -- her mother was a mathematician. Although at the time women were not considered as important to society as men were, she would turn out to be one of the most important influences of the century.
In 1924 Grace attended Vassar College, majoring in the sciences, specifically mathematics and physics. After four years of hard ...

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University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would then be the third person ever to program the Mark I. At that same time, the Mark I was being used to calculate the angles at which naval guns were to be aimed. Shortly after that a machine called BINAC was being developed which used the C-10 language. The C-10 according to Grace, "has been the basis for most codes since. 'A' was add, 'M' was multiply, 'B' was bring, 'C' was clear; it was a beautiful code." Grace was then forced to teach herself octal arithmetic, since that is what the code was performed in. A sort time after that, many people started to believe a user-friendlier computer was needed. Grace got to work on it.
Grace was credited ...

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Added: 3/19/2006 06:01:42 AM
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