Grace Hopper College is a residential college of Yale University, opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. It was originally named Cal
Divinity Hall, demolished in 1931 to build the college, from New Haven Green
Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of ma
Grace Hopper College
…after John C. Calhoun, who served as vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832, but was renamed in 2017 in honor of computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. The building was designed by John Russell Pope. From the 1960s onward, Calhoun's white supremacist beliefs and pro-slavery leadership had prompted…
Hopper's name on a duty roster for the Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard, which built and operated the Mark I
Hopper at the UNIVAC I console, c. 1960
Hopper in a computer room in Washington, D.C., 1978, photographed by Lynn Gilbert