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==Awards and honors== ===Military awards=== {| style="margin:1em auto; text-align:center;" |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|number=|type=oak|ribbon=Defense Distinguished Service Medal ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|ribbon=Legion of Merit ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|number=0|type=oak|ribbon=Meritorious Service Medal ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |- |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|number=0|type=oak|ribbon=Presidential Medal of Freedom (ribbon).svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|ribbon=American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|ribbon=World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |- |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|number=1|type=service-star|ribbon=National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|ribbon=Armed_Forces_Reserve_Medal_with_two_bronze_hourglass_devices.png{{!}}border|width=106}} |colspan="2"|{{ribbon devices|ribbon=U.S. Naval Reserve Medal ribbon.svg{{!}}border|width=106}} |} {| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;" |colspan="2"|[[Defense Distinguished Service Medal]]<br />(1986) |colspan="2"|[[Legion of Merit]]<br />(1967) |colspan="2"|[[Meritorious Service Medal (United States)|Meritorious Service Medal]]<br />(1980) |- |colspan="2"|[[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]<br />(2016, Posthumous) |colspan="2"|[[American Campaign Medal]]<br />(1944) |colspan="2"|[[World War II Victory Medal]]<br />(1945) |- |colspan="2"|[[National Defense Service Medal]] <br />with bronze service star<br />(1953, 1966) |colspan="2"|[[Armed Forces Reserve Medal]]<br />with two bronze hourglass devices<br />(1963, 1973, 1983) |colspan="2"|[[Naval Reserve Medal]]<br />(1953) |} ===Other awards=== * 1964: Hopper was awarded the [[Society of Women Engineers]] Achievement Award, the Society's highest honor, "In recognition of her significant contributions to the burgeoning computer industry as an engineering manager and originator of automatic programming systems."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://philadelphia.swe.org/first-ladies.html |title=First Ladies |website=SWE Philadelphia Section |language=en |access-date=2020-03-27 |archive-date=August 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806183854/http://philadelphia.swe.org/first-ladies.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In May 1955, Hopper was one of the founding members of the [[Society of Women Engineers#History|Society of Women Engineers]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=Spring 2015 |title=The Founders |url=http://oldswesite.swe.org/images/swemagazine/2015/swe_spring15_links.pdf#page=40 |journal=SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers |pages=34 |issn=1070-6232 |quote=Gathering at the [[Cooper Union]]'s Green Engineering Camp on a spring weekend, the following women founded the Society of Women Engineers on May 27, 1950, known as Founders' Day: ... [[Mary Blade]] ... [[Beatrice Alice Hicks]] ... [[Grace M. Hopper]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320104131/http://oldswesite.swe.org/images/swemagazine/2015/swe_spring15_links.pdf |archive-date=20 March 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1969: Hopper was awarded the inaugural [[Association of Information Technology Professionals|Data Processing Management Association]] Man of the Year award (now called the Distinguished Information Sciences Award).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aitp.org/?DISA |title=DISA Recipients β Association of Information Technology Professionals |access-date=June 28, 2016}}</ref> * 1971: The annual [[Grace Murray Hopper Award |Grace Murray Hopper Award for Outstanding Young Computer Professionals]] was established in 1971 by the [[Association for Computing Machinery]].<ref name="USN">{{Cite web |url=https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=97807 |title=Computer Science Legend, Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, Posthumously Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom |last=Grant |first=April |date=2016-11-22 |website=United States Navy |language=en |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=December 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209123842/https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=97807 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *1973: Elected to the [[National Academy of Engineering|U.S. National Academy of Engineering]]. * 1973: First American and first woman of any nationality to be made a [[DFBCS|Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Roll of Distinguished Fellows |author=Anon |year=2016 | url=http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/1650 | publisher=British Computer Society | access-date=2014-09-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025814/http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/1650 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * 1981: Received an Honorary PhD from Clarkson University. * 1982: [[American Association of University Women]] Achievement Award and an Honorary Doctor of Science from [[Marquette University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marquette.edu/universityhonors/honorary_degrees_recipients_year.shtml |title=Honorary Degrees {{!}} University Honors |publisher=Marquette University |access-date=August 19, 2014}}</ref> * 1983: Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org |publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]] |url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration}}</ref> * 1985: Honorary Doctor of Science from [[Wright State University]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wright.edu/office-of-the-provost/about/honorary-degrees |title=Honorary Degrees |publisher=Wright State University |access-date=August 29, 2023}}</ref> * 1985: Honorary Doctor of Letters from [[Western New England College]] (now [[Western New England University]]).<ref>{{cite web |last=Lee |first=J.A.N. |url=http://history.computer.org/pioneers/hopper.html |title=Computer Pioneers β Grace Brewster Murray Hopper |publisher=IEEE Computer Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |access-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.wne.edu/assets/10/WNE_History.pdf |title=Western New England: From College to University A Retrospective: 1919β2011 |publisher=Western New England University |access-date=May 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502110209/http://www1.wne.edu/assets/10/WNE_History.pdf |archive-date=May 2, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * 1986: Received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal at her retirement. * 1986: Received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Syracuse University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://adminmanual.syr.edu/awards/honorary_1.html |title=SU Archives: Awards and Honors β Recipient of Honorary Degrees |website=adminmanual.syr.edu |language=en |access-date=2018-09-28}}</ref> * 1987: She became the first [[Computer History Museum]] Fellow Award Recipient "for contributions to the development of programming languages, for standardization efforts, and for lifelong naval service."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Grace,Hopper/ |title=Grace Hopper β Computer History Museum Fellow Award Recipient |publisher=Computerhistory.org |access-date=March 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403184702/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Grace,Hopper/ |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> * 1988: Received the Golden Gavel Award, [[Toastmasters International]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.toastmasters.org/Events/2014-International-Convention/~/media/843165263C024C3FB0AB1DC082FA61F7.ashx |format=PDF |title=Past Golden Gavel Recipients |publisher=Toastmasters International |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * 1991: [[National Medal of Technology]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=The contributions of Grace Murray Hopper to computer science and computer education |last=Mitchell |first=Carmen |publisher=University of North Texas |year=1994}}</ref> * 1991: Elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780β2010: Chapter H |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterH.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008160232/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterH.pdf |archive-date=2018-10-08}}</ref> * 1992: The [[Society of Women Engineers]] established three annual, renewable, "Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Scholarships"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://swe.org/scholarships/admiral-grace-murray-hopper-scholarship-est-1992/ |title=Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Scholarship (Est. 1992) |website=Society of Women Engineers |date=February 8, 2019 |language=en-US |access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref> * 1994: Inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/grace-hopper/ |title=Hopper, Grace |website=National Women's Hall of Fame}}</ref> * 1996: {{USS |Hopper |DDG-70}} was launched.<ref name="USN" /> Nicknamed ''Amazing Grace'', it is on a very short [[list of U.S. military vessels named after women]]. * 2001: [[Eavan Boland]] wrote a poem dedicated to Grace Hopper titled "Code" in her 2001 release ''Against Love Poetry''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/books/map-of-love.html |title=Map of Love |last=Rehak |first=Melanie |date=2001-11-04 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-12-07 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * 2001: The Gracies, the Government Technology Leadership Award were named in her honor.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2002 Government Technology Leadership Awards |url=http://www.govexec.com/technology/2002/04/the-2002-government-technology-leadership-awards/7622/ |publisher=Government Executive |access-date=May 20, 2014 |date=April 1, 2002}}</ref> * 2009: The Department of Energy's [[National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center]] named its flagship system "Hopper".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/systems/hopper/ |title=Hopper Home Page |publisher=nersc.gov |access-date=June 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110325155710/http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/systems/hopper/ |archive-date=March 25, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2009: [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] creates the Grace Hopper Information Services Center.<ref>{{citation |title=Naval Intelligence Ramps up Activities | date=February 2009 | author=Robert K. Ackerman | journal=Signals | url=http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=node/1831}}</ref> * 2013: Google made the [[Google Doodle]] for Hopper's 107th birthday an animation of her sitting at a computer, using COBOL to print out her age. At the end of the animation, a moth flies out of the computer.<ref name="Google Doodle">{{cite web |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday/ |title=Grace Hopper's 107th Birthday |access-date=December 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/10505145/Grace-Hopper-honoured-with-Google-doodle.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/10505145/Grace-Hopper-honoured-with-Google-doodle.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Grace Hopper honoured with Google doodle |author=Matthew Sparkes |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=December 9, 2013 |access-date=December 9, 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2016: On November 22, 2016, Hopper was posthumously awarded a [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] for her accomplishments in the field of computer science.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/16/502347068/these-are-the-21-people-receiving-the-nations-highest-civilian-honor |title=These Are The 21 People Receiving The Nation's Highest Civilian Honor |date=November 16, 2016 |website=NPR |access-date=November 16, 2016}}</ref> * 2017: [[Hopper College]] at [[Yale University]] was named in her honor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/nyregion/yale-calhoun-college-grace-hopper.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/nyregion/yale-calhoun-college-grace-hopper.html |archive-date=2022-01-02 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate for Computer Pioneer |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=September 3, 2017 |date=September 3, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2021: The Admiral Grace Hopper Award was established by the chancellor of the [[College of Information and Cyberspace]] (CIC) of the [[National Defense University (Washington, D.C.)|National Defense University]] to recognize leaders in the fields of information and cybersecurity throughout the National Security community.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Admiral Grace Hopper Award |url=https://cic.ndu.edu/Events/Hopper-Award/ |website=[[College of Information and Cyberspace]] |access-date=July 14, 2021}}</ref>
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