So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

Today's Google Doodle pays homage to Grace Hopper, the woman who helped design one of the first modern programming languages. Hopper was a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and in 1959 she helped create COBOL—a ...

Gillian Jacobs, known for her role as Britta Perry on Community, directed a short documentary on the computer programming pioneer. She says Hopper... Grace Hopper, 'The Queen Of Code,' Would Have ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Google on Monday celebrated the birthday of computer programming legend Grace Hopper with a Google Doodle. Hopper's contributions to computer science are aplenty but she is perhaps best known for ...

Not only a pioneer in the field of computer programming, Grace Hopper was the oldest active-duty commissioned officer in the US Navy at the time of her retirement. While serving in the Navy Reserves, ...

Notice a woman punching in code on a mammoth computer on Google today? That would be Grace Hopper, a computing pioneer known as the "mother" of Cobol (Common Business-Oriented Language), one of the ...

Who better to teach about nanoseconds than Grace Hopper, navy admiral and inventor of the first compiler? [Flowing Data] Share this story Subscribe and interact with our community, get up to date with ...

Yes, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put a bit of damper on things, with his, shall we say, ill-advised comments on the gender pay gap. But that's just the side show. Until Nadella put his foot in his ...