Without Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, your computer would probably have no idea what you’re saying. In the 1950s, this Ivy League-graduate computer programmer invented the systems that would translate English into computer code. Thanks to Hopper a generation of programmers would have an easier, ...
Unlike Hopper’s Shakespearean training, Dean had a flair for improvisation rather than just miming the actions for the camera. Hopper called Dean the best actor he’d ever worked alongside. Needpix 3. For Too Brief a Moment As you can imagine, Hopper was particularly devastated when James De...
Collins; brain surgery pioneer Harvey Cushing; pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper; influential mathematician and chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs; National Women’s Hall of Fame inductee and biochemist Florence B. Seibert; Turing Award recipient Ron Rivest; inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Eli Whit...
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