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Grace Hopper Research Paper
Eduardo Sotomayor
Computers Literacy
Prof De Zottis
1/30/13
Grace Hopper As a child, Grace Hopper had great technical skills. She would disassemble an alarm clock and put it back together just for fun. Grace was born on December 9, 1906 in New york city. She grew and became a remarkable woman where she attended Vassar College and graduated in 1928 with a Bachlor in mathematics and physics. After her graduation she became one of the faculty as a associate professor at Vassar College and continued studying mathematics at Yale Unniversity. Because of her personality, she became a great leader and began programming the first computers and Mark series of computers. In 1943, she joined the United States Navel to help her county and was assigned

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