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Twelve new decorative windows installed today in Grace Hopper College, the Yale residential college previously known as Calhoun College, celebrate the richness of the college’s community and contemplate the complex history behind its name.
Grace Hopper College is a residential college of Yale University, opened in 1933 as one of the original eight undergraduate residential colleges endowed by Edward Harkness. It was originally named Calhoun College after US Vice President John C. Calhoun , but renamed in 2017 in honor of computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper .
Grace Hopper College – founded as Calhoun College in 1933 and renamed in honor of Grace Hopper ‘30 M.A., ‘34 Ph.D. in 2017 – is one of the smaller residential colleges. But don’t let that fool you!
The history of the College is certainly living history. It was founded as Calhoun College in 1933, and renamed Grace Hopper College in 2017. Heightened discussion and debate about whether the College’s name should change and if so, to what, began in the late 1970s and continued, unevenly, through 2017.
Definita “regina dell’informatica” e “grande signora del software”, negli Stati Uniti Grace Murray Hopper è stata molto conosciuta e amata anche in vita. Oltre che per le sue qualità di scienziata, era famosa per l’irriverenza e la capacità di ragionare fuori dagli schemi.
10 feb 2017 · The new name honors Grace Murray Hopper, a computer scientist, engineer and naval officer who graduated with both a master’s and doctoral degree from Yale in the 1930s — three decades before the university’s undergraduate college became coeducational.
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneer of computer programming and a professor of mathematics at Vassar College. She developed the FLOW-MATIC and COBOL languages, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 2016.
