Amazing Grace
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:41am December 09 2020
Today is the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper ’34PhD (1906–1992), mathematician, computer pioneer, rear admiral, and—since 2017—namesake of a Yale residential college. She’s shown here in the mid-1940s at Harvard, where she worked on the Mark I computer.
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