Grace Hopper: She taught computers to talk 04:12. Updated on Dec. 9, 2013. Believe it or not, the world of computers didn't begin with Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

[Grace Hopper] had been the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale. Which is even more impressive as she didn’t want to study mathematics in the first place.

Grace Hopper was one of America’s first computer scientists and among the first women in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of rear admiral. Born in New York in 1906, Hopper graduated Phi Beta Kappa ...

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a four-decade veteran of the United States Navy and a mathematician who made pioneering contributions to computer programming, died New Year's Day at her home in ...

Computing pioneer Grace Hopper is the star of a Google Doodle on Monday, the 107 anniversary of her birth. (Google screen capture) Google search engine users may want to take special note of ...

In this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back at the time Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (say it quickly) helped popularize the term 'debugging.' ...

Grace Hopper, known as "the first lady of software," is celebrated for her computer genius, with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 107th birthday.

Today’s Google Doodle is of Grace Hopper, an esteemed Navy Rear Admiral with landmark achievements in computer science. Here’s 5 Fast Facts. In 1952, Grace wrote the first computer compiler ...

Nicknamed "Amazing Grace" by her subordinates, Grace Hopper was a pioneer in computer science and mathematics, as well as a decorated U.S. Navy Reserve veteran.

Commodore Grace Hopper One of the most famous people in the early history of computing, Commodore Grace Hopper became a rear admiral when the rank of commodore was renamed. See Mark I and FLOW-MATIC .