Sail out to sea and do new things.” — Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (pictured), the U.S. Navy’s oldest active-duty officer at the time of her retirement, developer of the first compiler for a ...

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 ...

As the story goes, pioneer computer programmer Admiral Grace Murray Hopper coined the phrase in the early 1940s, when her computer crashed. Searching for the cause of the problem, Admiral Hopper ...