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==Legacy== {{prose|section|date=May 2021}} * Grace Hopper was awarded 40 honorary degrees from universities worldwide during her lifetime.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hopper.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030217215324/http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hopper.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= February 17, 2003 |title= Inventor of the Week: Archive |publisher= Web.mit.edu |access-date= December 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hopper.html |title= Hopper biography |publisher= History.mcs.st-and.ac.uk |access-date= December 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/hopper_grace.htm#honors |title= Biography – Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USN |publisher= United States Navy |access-date= December 9, 2013 |archive-date= May 15, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130515000852/http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/hopper_grace.htm#honors |url-status= dead }}</ref> * [[Nvidia]] has named their 2024 [[CPU]] generation Grace<ref>{{cite web |url=https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-grace-cpu/nvidia-grace-cpu-superchip#page=1|title=NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip Whitepaper|access-date=2024-08-27}}</ref> and [[GPU]] generation [[Hopper (microarchitecture)|Hopper]] after Grace Hopper. * The Navy's [[Hopper Information Services Center]] is named for her. * The Navy named a guided-missile destroyer ''[[USS Hopper|Hopper]]'' after her.<ref>🖉{{Cite web|url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/07/navy-destroyer-hoppers-1st-female-commanding-officer-fired-over-morale-problems.html/amp|title=Navy Destroyer Hopper's Commanding Officer Fired Over Morale Problems|website=www.military.com}}</ref> * On 30 June 2021, a satellite named after her ([[ÑuSat|ÑuSat 20]] or "Grace", COSPAR 2021-059AU) was launched into space. * On 26 August 2024 the [[National Security Agency|NSA]] released a 90-minute talk<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/|title=NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper|work=National Security Agency/Central Security Service |access-date=2024-08-27}}</ref> in 1982 by Hopper in two parts. ===Places=== * Grace Hopper Avenue in [[Monterey, California]], is the location of the Navy's [[Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/home/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200801233208/https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/home/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |title=Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |publisher=United States Navy |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> as well as the [[National Weather Service]]'s San Francisco Bay Area forecast office.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.weather.gov/mtr/ |title=San Francisco Bay Area, CA |website=National Weather Service |publisher=[[NOAA]] |language=EN-US |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> *Grace M. Hopper Navy Regional Data Automation Center at [[Naval Air Station, North Island]], California.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-96000/NH-96929.html |title=NH 96929 Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USNR |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |publisher=United States Navy |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> *[[Grace Murray Hopper Park]], on South Joyce Street in [[Arlington County, Virginia]], is a small memorial park in front of her former residence (River House Apartments) and is now owned by [[Arlington County, Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://parks.arlingtonva.us/locations/grace-murray-hopper-park/ |title=Grace Murray Hopper Park |website=Parks & Recreation |publisher=Arlington County Government |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606041013/https://parks.arlingtonva.us/locations/grace-murray-hopper-park/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Brewster Academy]], a school in [[Wolfeboro, New Hampshire]], United States, dedicated their computer lab to her in 1985, calling it the Grace Murray Hopper Center for Computer Learning.<ref name=navybio/> The academy bestows a Grace Murray Hopper Prize to a graduate who excelled in the field of computer systems.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brewsteracademy.org/customized/uploads/documents/Summer2007CorrectedWithCovers.pdf|title=Brewster Connections: Summer 2007|access-date=March 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911001753/http://www.brewsteracademy.org/customized/uploads/documents/Summer2007CorrectedWithCovers.pdf|archive-date=September 11, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hopper had spent her childhood summers at a family home in Wolfeboro. * [[Grace Hopper College]], one of the residential colleges of [[Yale University]].<ref name="yalenews_2017">{{cite web|url=http://news.yale.edu/2017/02/11/yale-change-calhoun-college-s-name-honor-grace-murray-hopper-0|title=Yale to change Calhoun College's name to honor Grace Murray Hopper|date=February 11, 2017|website=YaleNews|access-date=February 12, 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212013446/http://news.yale.edu/2017/02/11/yale-change-calhoun-college-s-name-honor-grace-murray-hopper-0|archive-date=February 12, 2017}}</ref> * An administration building on Naval Support Activity Annapolis (previously known as Naval Station Annapolis) in Annapolis, Maryland is named the Grace Hopper Building in her honor.<ref name=navybio/> * Hopper Hall is [[United States Naval Academy|Naval Academy]]'s newest academic building that houses its cyber science department, among others. It is the first building at any service academy named after a woman.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Witte |first=Brian |date=2017-08-07 |title=Naval Academy to honor computer scientist Grace Hopper |url=https://www.navytimes.com/pay-benefits/military-benefits/2016/09/08/naval-academy-to-honor-computer-scientist-grace-hopper/ |access-date=2018-12-07 |work=Navy Times |language=en-US |agency=Associated Press |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * The US Naval Academy also owns a Cray XC-30 supercomputer named "Grace", hosted at the University of Maryland-College Park.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.hpc.mil/index.php/2013-08-29-16-06-21/press-releases/us-naval-academy-dedicates-new-supercomputer |title=US Naval Academy Dedicates New Supercomputer |date=2013-08-29 |publisher=Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=October 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001182238/https://www.hpc.mil/index.php/2013-08-29-16-06-21/press-releases/us-naval-academy-dedicates-new-supercomputer |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Building 1482 aboard Naval Air Station North Island, housing the Naval Computer and Telecommunication Station San Diego, is named the Grace Hopper Building, and also contains the History of Naval Communications Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.public.navy.mil/fltfor/nctssandiego/Pages/Museums.aspx |title=Grace Hopper Museum |website=United States Navy |access-date=2018-12-07 |archive-date=December 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209123803/https://www.public.navy.mil/fltfor/nctssandiego/Pages/Museums.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Building 6007, C2/CNT West in [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]], Maryland, is named after her.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.army.mil/article/53927/new_campus_built_on_tradition_of_excellence |title=New campus built on tradition of excellence |website=United States Army |date=March 28, 2011 |language=en |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * The street outside of the Nathan Deal Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center in Augusta, Georgia, is named Grace Hopper Lane.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.augustachronicle.com/business/20180714/scuttlebiz-ribbon-was-worthy-adversary-but-not-for-deals-penknife |title=Scuttlebiz: Ribbon was worthy adversary, but not for Deal's penknife |last=Cline |first=Damon |date=2018-07-14 |work=[[The Augusta Chronicle]] |access-date=2018-12-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * Grace Hopper Academy is a for-profit immersive programming school in New York City named in Grace Hopper's honor. It opened in January 2016 with the goal of increasing the proportion of women in software engineering careers.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Grace Hopper Academy |url= http://gracehopper.com/ |website= gracehopper.com |access-date= 2015-10-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Exclusive: Grace Hopper Academy, An All-Women Coding School, To Open in New York |url= http://www.ibtimes.com/exclusive-grace-hopper-academy-all-women-coding-school-open-new-york-2141588 |website= International Business Times |access-date= 2015-10-15 |df=mdy-all|date= 2015-10-15 }}</ref> * A bridge over Goose Creek, to join the north and south sides of the [[Naval Support Activity Charleston]] side of [[Joint Base Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], is named the Grace Hopper Memorial Bridge in her honor.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.jbcharleston.jb.mil/News/story/id/123293768/ |title= Women's History Month: Beyond the bridge: Story of 'Amazing Grace' Hopper |first1= Tom |last1= Brading |date= March 13, 2012 |access-date= February 12, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130317121222/http://www.charleston.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123293768 |archive-date= March 17, 2013 |url-status= live |df= mdy-all }}</ref> * Minor planet [[5773 Hopper]] discovered by [[Eleanor Helin]] is named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 8 November 2019 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 117229}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/2019/MPC_20191108.pdf | title=Minor Planet Circulars/Minor Planets and Comets, M.P.C 117229 |date=November 8, 2019}}</ref> * Grace Hopper Hall, a community meeting hall in Orlando, Florida, on the site of the former Orlando Naval Training Center, is named for her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gmouen.com/the-artesia-hotel|title = Grace Hopper Hall}}</ref> * The United States Naval Academy dedicated Hopper Hall, their cyber, computer science, and computer engineering building, to RDML Hopper in 2020, and it opened to midshipmen in the spring of 2021. ===Programs=== * Women at [[Microsoft Corporation]] formed an employee group called Hoppers and established a scholarship in her honor.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://womensenews.org/2001/04/inside-microsoft-hoppers-writing-new-code/ |title=Inside Microsoft, Hoppers Writing New Code |last=Buscher |first=Ranae |date=2001-04-13 |work=Women's eNews |access-date=2018-12-07 |language=en-US |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * Beginning in 2015, one of the nine competition fields at the [[FIRST Robotics Competition]] world championship is named for Hopper.<ref>{{Cite news |title= New Subdivision Names |work= First Robotics Corporation |access-date= 2016-03-16 |date= 2015-02-09 |url= http://www.firstinspires.org/node/7951 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * A named professorship in the Department of Computer Sciences was established at Yale University in her honor. [[Joan Feigenbaum]] was named to this chair in 2008.<ref>Yale News, July 18, 2008</ref> * In 2020, [[Google]] named its new [[undersea network cable]] [[Grace Hopper (submarine communications cable)|'Grace Hopper']]. The cable connects the US, UK and Spain and it was estimated to be completed by 2022.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-07-28|title=Google data cable to link US, UK and Spain|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53553580 |access-date=2020-07-28}}</ref> Nonetheless, The Grace Hopper cable was completed in 2021, and it stretches 3,900 miles.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-09-15|title=Google finishes 3,900-mile Grace Hopper cable linking US to UK and Spain|language=en-US|work=CNET|url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/google-finishes-3900-mile-subsea-cable-connecting-us-to-uk-and-spain/ |access-date=2024-05-28}}</ref> === In popular culture === * In his comic book series, ''Secret Coders'' by [[Gene Luen Yang]], the main character is named Hopper Gracie-Hu.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2015/10/07/446385092/robot-birds-teach-kids-to-program-in-secret-coders |title=Robot Birds Teach Kids To Program In 'Secret Coders' |last=Lehoczky |first=Etelka |date=2015-10-07 |work=[[NPR]] |access-date=2018-12-07 |language=en |df=mdy-all}}</ref> * Since 2013, Hopper's official portrait has been included in the [[matplotlib]] python library as sample data to replace the controversial [[Lenna]] image.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ada Lovelace and Grace Murray Hopper images in place of Lena by ivanov · Pull Request #1599 · matplotlib/matplotlib|url=https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1599|access-date=2020-07-09|website=GitHub|language=en}}</ref> ====Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing==== Her legacy was an inspiring factor in the creation of the [[Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gracehopper.org/ |title=Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing |publisher=Gracehopper.org |access-date=December 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109154843/http://gracehopper.org/ |archive-date=January 9, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Held yearly, this conference is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 31, 2016 |url=https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/we-went-to-the-grace-hopper-celebration-heres-what-were-bringing-back |title=We Went to the Grace Hopper Celebration. Here's What We're Bringing Back}}</ref>
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