- Grace Hopper is an American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology.
- She joined the U.S. Navy during World War II and was assigned to program the Mark I computer
- On her arrival at Cruft Laboratory she immediately encountered the Mark I computer. For her it was an attractive gadget, similar to the alarm clocks of her youth; she could hardly wait to disassemble it and figure it out. Admiral Hopper became the third person to program the Mark I. She received the Naval Ordnance Development Award for her pioneering applications programming success on the Mark I, Mark II, and Mark III computer
- Hopper's legacy includes encouraging young people to learn how to program
- The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing Conference is a technical conference that encourages women to become part of the world of computing, while the Association for Computing Machinery offers a Grace Murray Hopper Award. Additionally, on her birthday in 2013, Hopper was remembered with a "Google Doodle."
- In 2016, Hopper was posthumously honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.