Grace Hopper
by Kayla Hyer
1. Contribution to the Field of Education
1.1. The education field is one that is based around electronics. Teachers use these electronics for everything from grades to making papers. The idea of education went from one room school houses to the high tech classrooms we have today with a large part to Grace Hoppers improvement of the computer.
1.2. She has some students of her own. she taught them how to write code and solve many problems that computers have.
2. Relationship to Technology
2.1. She helped found the language of computer code that all electronics use today. Without her electronic would be much more complicated and most likely would have not progressed as far as it did.
2.2. She paved the way for the future and in some ways helped to bring the computer industry together.
3. Relevance to Future Teachers
3.1. Technology is changing everyday but the code she created is still used in everyday computer systems. So as the technology changes what Grace Hopper made will always be the base if it.
3.2. Grace Hopper has a yearly conference dedicated to her promoting Women into the field of technology this helps bring new minds to playing field and helped show that women deserve to work in any field they want to.
4. Biographical Summary
4.1. Grace Hopper was born in December of 1909. she went to college at Hartridge School for Girls, Vassar College, and eventually Yale University. She enlisted in the US Naval Reserve in December 1943 and would serve for over forty more years. She died January 1, 1992.
4.2. She married Vincent Foster a English teacher from New York University. They divorced a few years later with no children. she never remarried or had any children of her own. She did or course teach many young people how to use her code.
5. Contributions to Computer Science
5.1. This is just a few of her accomplishments that she had "By the early 1950s, her work with programming languages led to her development of FLOW-MATIC, the first English-language dataprocessing compiler. Hopper’s work on FLOW-MATIC paved the way for her later work with COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)".(Badertscher, Eric.pg.3) and she also "Invents the Computer Language COBOL Hopper received numerous honors and awards during her lifetime, including over thirty honorary doctorates. Federal honors include the Legion of Merit (1973), the Defense Distinguished Service Medal (1986), and the National Medal of Technology (1990). The Grace Murray Hopper Service Center, a naval data-processing center in San Diego, was named in her honor in September 1985".(Badertscher, Eric.pg.2). By the end of her life she help the whole computer industry change for the better.
5.2. Badertscher, Eric. "Grace Murray Hopper." Great Lives from History: Scientists & Science, Nov. 2012, p. 454. EBSCOhost, library.ncmissouri.edu:8080/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sch&AN=110336442&site=ehost-live&scope=site.