Grace Hopper
“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”
Today in 1967, The US Navy recalled 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 Systems Planning and was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1973. She developed validation software for COBOL and its compiler as part of a COBOL standardizati…
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