Hopper, Grace oral history
In this 1980 interview, Grace Murray Hopper describes her entry into computing and programming, when, as a Navy officer, she was assigned to work with Howard Aiken on the Mark series of computers and its coding. She talks about her post-Navy years with John Mauchly at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and, subsequently the Univac division of Sperry Rand where she and her staff developed A-O, the first compiler, followed by the first English-language compiler, B-O, or Flow-Matic, the major predecessor of COBOL. And, ultimately, about her return to the Navy to work on standard languages and software, during which she continued her earlier work with CODASYL to create COBOL, i.e., business-language standards. Made at Naval Data Automation Command
Item Details
- Date
- 1980-12 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102702026
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Angeline Pantages (Editor)
Angeline Pantages (Interviewer)
Grace Murray Hopper (Interviewee) - Category
- Transcript
- Credit line
- Gift of Angela Pantages Doyne
- Extent
- 54 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/MD/Naval Data Automation Command
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X5142.2009
- Subject
- Fellow Award Honoree, ADABAS, UNIVAC, Sperry Rand Corporation, IBM, ENIAC (Computer), Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, COBOL (Computer Program Language)
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection