Time Line of Grace Hopper
This time line was taken from http://www.thocp.net/biographies/hopper_grace.html
Grace was educated at two private schools for girls, namely Graham School and Schoonmakers School both in New York City. Intending to enter Vassar College in 1923 she failed a Latin examination and was required to wait another year.
1923
Spent the academic year at Hartridge School in Plainfield, New Jersey
1924
Entered Vassar College in 1924. She studied mathematics and physics at Vassar College
1928
graduating with a BA.
After graduating she undertook research in mathematics at Yale University.
1930
Grace Murray married Vincent Foster Hopper, an English teacher from New York University. He died in 1945 during WWII, they had no children.
Received a Vassar College Fellowship to study at Yale University
Yale awarded her an MA in mathematics.
1931-1941
Began teaching mathematics at Vassar College as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics and she continued on the staff there until
1934
She earned a PhD mathematics at Yale University
1941
Hopper attended New York University as a Vassar Faculty Fellow
1943
Promoted to an associate professorship.
Hopper was awarded her doctorate by Yale University for a thesis New Types of Irreducibility Criteria which was supervised by Oystein Ore.
She persuaded the Naval Reserve to accept her in 1943 and she also persuaded Vassar College to grant her leave.
1944
She worked with Aiken on the Harvard Mark I computer
Mathematical Officer US Naval Bureau of Ordinance till 1946
1946
Ended her active duty with the Navy but remained a duty reservist.
1949-1967
Joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation as a Senior Mathematician and there she worked with John Eckert and John Mauchly on the UNIVAC computer.
1952-1964
As systems engineer at Sperry Corporation, she created an operational compiler.
1959
She was a Visiting Lecturer at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania.
1959-1966
She was a consultant and lecturer for the United States Naval Reserve up to her retirement in December 1966, by which time she had reached the rank of Commander.
1967
Recalled to active duty in the Navy.
1971
Retired from Sperry Rand at 65
1971-1978
Lecturer in Management Sciences at George Washington University
1973
Promoted to Captain Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Jr.,
1977
She was appointed special advisor to Commander, Naval Data Automation Command,
1983
Promoted to the rank of Commodore in a White House ceremony in December
1985
Promoted to Rear Admiral.
1986
Retired from de service at 80 years of age, she was the oldest active duty officer in the United States. She had reached the rank of Rear Admiral.
1986-1988
Senior consultant at Digital Equipment Corporation.
