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Grace Murray Hopper
Pages 78-83

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From page 79...
... She returned to Vassar as a mathematics assistant in 1931, and she successively became an instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor. She received a Vassar faculty fellowship and studied at New York University in 1941-1942, and the following year became an assistant professor of mathematics at Barnard College.
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From page 80...
... Naval Reserve because she was "too old" to apply for the regular Navy, at age forty! She joined the Harvard faculty as a research fellow in engineering sciences and applied physics in 1946, when the Computation Laboratory was working on the Mark II ant} Mark III computers.
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From page 81...
... In May 1953 her paper "Compiling Routines" described some of the fundamental ideas of compiling, as contrasted with interpreting. A computer program known as a compiler translates instructions written in a programming language into machine language that the computer can understand and use.
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From page 82...
... to start many of her outof-town speeches with an account of how someone mistook her for an airport security guard as she walked through the local airport. Another story attributed to her was the origin of the phrase "computer bug." One night in 1945, supposedly, she and several others were having problems with the Mark I computer (which was fifty-one feet long)
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From page 83...
... Mandell, West Publishing Company, 1984. Honors and awards ranged from Phi Beta Kappa in 1928 to the National Medal of Technology awarded to her by President Bush in 1991, the first woman individually recognized with this prestigious award.
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