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BYJessica Evans

Sep 16, 2021


The Navy initially denied Grace Hopper’s enlistment. Then she revolutionized computers.

Grace Hopper, WAVE mathematician, assigned to Harvard University to work on the computation project with a Mark I computer, was instrumental in ushering in the computer age. Hopper went on to become a Rear Admiral, held a Ph.D. from Yale, and tried …

 Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, right, promotes Capt. Grace Hopper to the rank of commodore in a ceremony at the White House. President Ronald Reagan is at the left. (Wikimedia Commons)

BYJessica Evans

Sep 16, 2021

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