{"id":260,"date":"2010-03-16T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T19:09:37","slug":"national-womens-history-month-grace-murray-hopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/16\/national-womens-history-month-grace-murray-hopper\/","title":{"rendered":"National Women&#8217;s History Month &#8211; Engineering Women: Grace Murray Hopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineergirl.org\/?id=11845\">Grace Murray Hopper<\/a> is the woman engineer ATS is honoring today for the U.S. National Women&#8217;s History Month of March.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Grace was born in 1906 in New York City.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She graduated from Vassar College in in 1928 with a B.A. in mathematics and physics.\u00c2\u00a0 Her first job was as a member of the Vassar College faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Hopper later earned both an MA and Ph. D.\u00c2\u00a0 in Mathematics from Yale University.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943 to help the U.S. during WWII.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She eventually resigned from Vassar&#8217;s faculty to join Harvard University&#8217;s Computational Lab as a research fellow in engineering and applied physics.\u00c2\u00a0 By 1967, Ms. Hopper became Admiral Hopper and started to become involved with programming computers.\u00c2\u00a0 Her first was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvard_Mark_I\">Mark I Computer<\/a> which she became the third person to program it.\u00c2\u00a0 She went on to work with the Mark I, Mark II and Mark III computers, receiving the Naval Ordinance Development Award for her pioneering work programming these systems.\u00c2\u00a0 Admiral Hopper believed that the only thing keeping computers from being deployed outside of scientific arenas were programming languages the every day person could use.\u00c2\u00a0 It took her several years, but, she was able to demonstrate this concept successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Murray Hopper is the woman engineer ATS is honoring today for the U.S. National Women&#8217;s History Month of March.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Grace was born in 1906 in New York City.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She graduated from Vassar College in in 1928 with a B.A. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/16\/national-womens-history-month-grace-murray-hopper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering-science-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}