Legacy

Grace Hopper’s legacy lives on in the tools and languages she helped create, and in the generations of technologists she inspired. She remains a symbol of innovation, curiosity, and fearless leadership in computing.

Vassar alums in the tech industry speak about Grace Hopper.

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Nvidia GH200

Nvidia, which was recently the most valuable company on the planet, has named a superchip after Grace Hopper. The NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper is a cutting-edge processor built specifically to power large-scale AI and high-performance computing.

The Grace Hopper subsea cable

Google has named one of their largest infrastructure investments of the decade—a subsea cable connecting the internet of Europe to America—after her.

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Grace Hopper Celebration Conference

The largest tech conference on earth for women and binary people (30K annually) is named in her honor and every tech company that wants to celebrate or recruit women has to be there to make a big showing.

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age

In 2012 Kurt Beyer authored a well received book about her entitled Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. The book has since been optioned by Casey Affleck.

Learn more about the book.

Grace Hopper sits at a UNIVAC computer terminal surrounded by colleagues. She wears glasses and a dress with a light cardigan, and holds a stack of papers while engaging with the machine.

The Queen of Code

Kurt Beyer also worked on Queen of Code, a short film about Grace Hopper produced by Colin Hanks.

Watch Queen of Code.

Photo: Hagley Museum. Donald Cropper, K. C. Krishnan, and Grace Hopper working with a UNIVAC computer, 1957

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Credit

https://allhands.navy.mil/Media/Gallery/igphoto/2003001700/

Other Schools

In 2017, Yale renamed a residential college Grace Hopper College. In 2020, the US Naval Academy opened Hopper Hall, and in 2024, UPenn, where she had merely served as a guest lecturer, honored her contributions to the creation of the first compiler.

Photo: The US Naval Academy’s Hopper Hall. Matt Stinson, All Hands Magazine, US Navy

USS Hopper

USS Hopper (DDG-70) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight I) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named in honor of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. She is the second U.S. Navy warship named after a woman from the Navy’s own ranks. Hopper was launched and christened in January, 1996, and officially commissioned in San Francisco in September of 1997.