Today's Google doodle commemorates computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who invented key software technologies that paved the way for modern day computer languages. She managed to get government agencies ...

The field of computer science is full of strange and sometimes off-putting jargon. Some words and turns of phrase are the inevitable result of trying to name ethereal concepts using a language that ...

With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyberattacks, and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are ...

The late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a gifted mathematician and undisputed pioneer in computer programming, honored posthumously in 2016 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also very ...

Not long ago, people thought computers couldn’t communicate in English! Dr. Grace Hopper put that notion to rest. She also wrote the first computer manual. Trained in mathematics and mathematical ...

Canadian coding school Bitmaker Labs announced this week that female registrants participating in the bootcamp would be eligible for its new “Grace Hopper Scholarship for Women in Computing.” Grace ...

Grace Murray Hopper may have been ahead of her time. She certainly did things that were a little unusual for women of her day. She graduated from Vassar College in 1928 with a degree in math. She went ...

Back in 2012, the last leap second brought big sites like Reddit, Yelp, and LinkedIn, but this time out, everything was smooth sailing — no leap second bug in sight. Still, even though we made it ...

This fall, Northwestern Computer Science sponsored 55 Northwestern students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) and Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing ...

Six members of the FCS community (including: undergraduate and graduate students, a recent alumna, and a faculty member) attended the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the world's ...