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- Jan. 13, 1992: Died:Grace Hooper
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 13, 1992 The Recession:How Bad Is It?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 50
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- <p> DIED. Grace Hopper, 85, retired Navy rear admiral and
- computer-science pioneer; in Arlington, Va. After receiving a
- doctorate in mathematics from Yale in 1934, Hopper taught at her
- alma mater, Vassar. In 1943 she joined the Navy and used the
- forerunner of modern computers to do ordnance calculations.
- Hopper helped develop UNIVAC, the first large commercial
- computer. At 60, she was recalled to active duty to help
- standardize the Navy's computer languages. She retired in 1986
- as the nation's oldest active-duty officer. A blunt woman who
- smoked unfiltered cigarettes, she once called the women's
- movement "tommyrot and nonsense," declaring, "Being a woman
- won't hold you back if you have the desire, the courage and the
- skills."
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