Grace Hopper - Author of COBOL

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  1. I'm Chance McQuaid.
  2. And this is my presentation on Coble, the first computer
  3. language. Grace Hopper was the author of Cobell, and she
  4. was born in 1906 in New York City and died
  5. in 1992 and her early life, Hopper went to private
  6. school and after high school, Hopper attended Yale, where she
  7. earned her master's degree in mathematics in 1930 continue to
  8. study until 1934 when she earned her PhD in mathematics.
  9. I actually didn't expect this, but the number of women
  10. to receive doctorates in the 19 twenties and 19 thirties
  11. spiked and wouldn't be matched until the 19 eighties.
  12. My theory is that it was closer to the suffrage
  13. movement, and women were eager to prove that they were
  14. capable of holding jobs, just as the men did.
  15. Hopper worked at a Harvard lab that was called on
  16. by America's military to provide top secret calculations for World
  17. War Two and the Cold War because of her age.
  18. In 1946 the name he turned down her request for
  19. a regular commission, and she left active service.
  20. In 1949 Hopper joined the Eckert Ma click computer corporation.
  21. Sorry if I messed up the pronunciation, but, um, which
  22. was the first company to develop an electronic computer, also
  23. known as ENIAC, As head programmer In 1952 Hopper led
  24. her team to complete the first compiler, dubbed a zero
  25. Under hoppers management, her team created the first language to
  26. utilize English like commands called Flow Matic.
  27. With the growing number of computer languages, businesses needed a
  28. standard language which led to the creation of Kobal.
  29. Though there were many who worked on Kobol, it was
  30. Hopper who promoted the language to military and private sector
  31. users. And this is my bibliography.