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Grace Murray was born on December 9, 1906 in
New York City. In 1928 she finished her education in Vassar College in maths and
physics. Since then, she had been teaching at Vassar and continued her studies at
Yale University, where she achieved a lot in maths in 1934.
In 1930, Grace Murray married Vincent Foster
Hopper. They were happy together for 15 years. She taught at Vassar until 1943,
when she joined the United States Navy (海军) to help her country during World War II. Then
she was given a job at the Bureau of Computation Project at Harvard University,
where she worked on the Mark Series of computers.
In 1945, she began to do research in applied
(应用) physics at Harvard's Computation
Laboratory. In 1949 she joined the Eckert—Mauchly Computer Corporation and worked
with them. 18 years later, she returned to the Navy. She retired in 1971 but continued
teaching for the computer development. Brewster Academy, a school in Wolfeboro,
New Hampshire, the United States, gave their computer lab to her for free in 1985,
calling it the Grace Murray Hopper Centre for Computer Learning. She had spent her
childhood summer at a local family in Wolfeboro. She passed away in her sleep
in 1992. Since her death, her workmate Elenor Briggs has been going on with her
jobs.
Grace Murray was a great woman and a leader
in the computer development. Her work helped improve the use of computer languages.
She practised her words "Dare and Do" in her life time.
