So, the story goes something like this. In 1947, in Virginia, US, an error was spotted on the Harvard Mark II, one of the first programmable computers in the world. A ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (April 15, 2015) U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Walter E. "Ted" Carter observes a team of midshipmen during the 15th annual Cyber Defense Exercise hosted by the National ...

March is all about celebrating womanhood, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential women in history whose inspirational stories helped pave the way for female empowerment and progress.

Immediately after Saturday afternoon’s renaming announcement, members of what until then had been called Calhoun College were already self-identifying as proud members of Grace Hopper College, both in ...

Grace Hopper was one of America’s first computer scientists and among the first women in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of rear admiral. Born in New York in 1906, Hopper graduated Phi Beta Kappa ...

The feature of being easier to write than assembly is often seen as the biggest advantage of high-level programming languages. The other benefit that comes with them is portability. With high-level ...

President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom to two storied women in tech — one posthumously to Grace Hopper, known as the “first lady of software,” and one to programmer Margaret ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy will name its future cyber building after Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and U.S. Navy rear admiral, the academy's superintendent announced ...