Mathematician and Computer Scientist Grace Hopper

Have you ever taken something apart to see how it works? As a child, Grace Hopper took apart five alarm clocks in a row, trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. As an adult, she joined the Naval Reserve during World War II and worked on the world''s first large-scale computer.After the war, Hopper served on a committee organized by the Department of Defense to create a standard compu...