Grace Murray ... In 1949, Hopper joined a start-up launched by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, who had developed ENIAC, one of the earliest computers. Their new product was Univac, a computer ...

This was at a time when computers were custom-built machines bearing individual names like ENIAC, UNIVAC and Mark I ... One visionary was [Grace Hopper]. Compiled code often runs slower than ...

Grace Hopper Hopper was a computer scientist and mathematician who worked on the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC I), one of the first all-electronic digital computers. She received a degree ...

Hopper's achievements included creating the first computer compiler and working on UNIVAC.Bettmann/Getty Images Hopper was a computer scientist and mathematician who worked on the Universal ...