Grace Murray Hopper may have been ahead of her time ... This was later incorporated into COBOL, the business programming language that brought computer use and data processing into the world ...

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a four-decade veteran of the United States Navy and a mathematician ... She was the first woman to receive the award as an individual. Hopper helped invent the COBOL ...

Grace Murray Hopper was born in New York City in 1906 and attended Vassar College before receiving her PhD in mathematical physics from Yale University in 1934, returning there to teach on graduating ...