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Past Award
Recipients
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Forefront
of information warfare, security, and cryptography fields
Adele Mildred Koss
Developed the first compilers
Esther
Dyson
A powerful thinker in the computing industry!
Betty
Holberton
One of the six original programmers of ENIAC
Dr.
Anita Borg
Founder of Systers
Jean
Sammet
Expert in programming languages
Margaret
H. Hamilton
Founder of Higher Order Software
Amy
D. Wohl
Pioneer of office automation and ergonomics
Dr.
Ruth M. Davis
Distinguished in government service
Grace
Murray Hopper
Known for COBOL
Dr.
Thelma Estrin
Professor of computer science at UCLA
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray
Hopper, USNR
1983 Lovelace Award Recipient
Best known of the women awarded
the Lovelace award is Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. Her career began when
she joined the Navy and was assigned to work with Commander Howard Aitken at
Harvard on the Mark 1. It was here she coined the term, "debugging"
when a moth caused the Mark II to fail. In 1949 she joined the Eckert-Mauchly
Corporation where she designed the first compiler, A-0. The industry group
developing COBOL, partially supervised by Hopper, used Flowmatic, a business
programming language she had developed as a model. Hopper become known as the
grandmother of COBOL. Besides her work on COBOL, Hopper was known for her
technical vision and ideas on computer applications and for tools for
compiling and programming such as subroutines, relative addressing, linking
loaders, code optimization and symbolic manipulation.
Further
biographical information
USS
HOPPER (DDG 70), the first destroyer and only the second Navy ship named
after a woman
Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 1997
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