Grace Murray Hopper Award Facts for Kids

Grace Murray Hopper

The Grace Murray Hopper Award is a special prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This award celebrates computer experts who have made a really important discovery or helped the computer world a lot, especially when they are 35 years old or younger. It's named after Grace Hopper, who was a brilliant computer scientist and a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. She was a true pioneer in the early days of computers! The award has been given out since 1971.

Who Was Grace Hopper?
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Who Was Grace Hopper?

Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) was an amazing American computer scientist and a high-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy. She was one of the first people to work on computers. She helped create the first computer programming languages. These languages allow us to "talk" to computers and tell them what to do.

Grace Hopper believed that computer programs should be written in a way that was more like English. This made it easier for more people to use computers. She is famous for helping to develop COBOL, which is a very important programming language used for business. She also helped invent the idea of "debugging" a computer. This means finding and fixing problems in computer code. She even found a real moth stuck in a computer, which was causing a problem! That's where the term "bug" in computer science comes from.

Grace Hopper was a true visionary. She saw how computers could change the world. She inspired many people to get into computer science. The Grace Murray Hopper Award honors her spirit of innovation and her contributions to technology.

Award Winners

The Grace Murray Hopper Award recognizes young computer professionals. They must have made a single, very important technical or service contribution to computing. This contribution must have happened when they were 35 years old or younger. Many famous computer scientists have received this award over the years.

1971 Donald Knuth
1972 Paul H. Dirksen
1972 Paul H. Cress
1973 Lawrence M. Breed
1973 Richard H. Lathwell
1973 Roger Moore
1974 George N. Baird
1975 Allan L. Scherr
1976 Edward H. Shortliffe
1977 no award
1978 Ray Kurzweil
1979 Steve Wozniak
1980 Robert M. Metcalfe
1981 Daniel S. Bricklin
1982 Brian K. Reid
1983 no award
1984 Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr.
1985 Cordell Green
1986 William Nelson "Bill" Joy
1987 John Ousterhout
1988 Guy L. Steele Jr.
1989 W. Daniel Hillis
1990 Richard Stallman
1991 Feng-hsiung Hsu
1992 no award
1993 Bjarne Stroustrup
1994–1995 no award
1996 Shafrira Goldwasser
1997–1998 no award
1999 Wen-mei Hwu
2000 Lydia Kavraki
2001 George Necula
2002 Ramakrishnan Srikant
2003 Stephen W. Keckler
2004 Jennifer Rexford
2005 Omer Reingold
2006 Dan Klein
2007 Vern Paxson
2008 Dawson Engler
2009 Tim Roughgarden
2010 Craig Gentry
2011 Luis von Ahn
2012 Martin Casado and Dina Katabi
2013 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb
2014 Sylvia Ratnasamy
2015 Brent Waters
2016 Jeffrey Heer
2017 Amanda Randles
2018 Constantinos Daskalakis and Michael J. Freedman
2019 Maria-Florina Balcan
2020 Shyam Gollakota
2021 Raluca Ada Popa
2022 Mohammad Alizadeh
2023 Prateek Mittal
2024 Ilias Diakonikolas

Grace Murray Hopper Award facts for kids

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Who Was Grace Hopper?

Award Winners

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