This photograph is signed “Grace Murray Hopper Commodore USNR” but was taken while Hopper was a Captain in the US Naval Reserve. While neither the photograph nor the autograph is dated, one can deduce ...

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 ...

Yale University decided to change the name of the controversial Calhoun College after a report was published from Yale’s Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming, and after years of debate and ...

This bundle consists of about one hundred pieces of plastic-coated wire, each about 30 cm (11.8 in) long. Each piece of wire represents the distance an electrical signal travels in a nanosecond, one ...

On December 7, 1941, two days before her 35th birthday, Grace Murray Hopper, an associate professor of mathematics at Vassar College, was sitting in her study surrounded by books and a small radio ...

Grace Murray Hopper Collection, 1944-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning ...