Grace Hopper was born in 1906 in New York, New York. She graduated from Vassar College, and then attended Yale University for a Ph.D. in mathematics. She taught mathematics at Vassar College and in 1943 she joined the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services) where she was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnances's Computation Project at Harvard. This is where she worked on the first large-scale automatic calculator called Mark I.She then wrote the first computer manual that describes how to operate Mark I. She later designed one of the first compliers and worked on one of the world's first commercial computers. At 79 she was the oldest officer on active US naval duty and she retired in 1986. She passed away in 1992 at the age of 85.
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