Grace Hopper, Pioneer Computer Scientist, Celebrated in Google Doodle
Grace Hopper worked on early room-size computers, creating COBOL language.
Dec. 9, 2013— -- In an age of smartphones and tablets, it can be hard to imagine a time when the typical computer weighed 5 tons and took up more space than your boss's office. Grace Hopper worked on one of those behemoth machines, and helped create one of the first computer programming languages, COBOL. Today's Google Doodle celebrates her birthday.