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This collection has digital and hard copy records related to Grace Hopper that Mary Hopper accumulated over the course of her career (often due to her shared surname).

The links below are related to the contents of the archive.

Also be sure to check out the Harvard’s Mark I & Hopper exhibit.

Hopper

Grace Hopper, Computing Pioneer (Walter Isaacson, Harvard Gazette)

The Education of a Computer (Grace Murray Hopper, Remmington Rand Corporation)

Grace Murray Hopper (Computer History Museum)

Grace Hopper (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Grace Hopper (Wikipedia)

Mark I

Harvard IBM Mark I – Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments)
IBM’s ASCC Introduction a.k.a. The Harvard Mark I (IBM Archives)

Howard Aiken and the Harvard Mark I, Lecture by Grace Hopper (Computer History Museum, YouTube Video)
Harvard Mark I, 2022 (CS50, Harvard University, YouTube Video)
The Story of Mark I (Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, YouTube Video)

Aiken and the Mark I (Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers)

Harvard Mark I (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Harvard Mark I (Wikipedia)

Mark I, Renovation & Celebration

The Mark I received a major renovations, and the public was invited to attend a special ceremony in which it was turned on April 3, 2014.

Down to the Details, a Giant in Computing History: Harvard Mark I Exhibit Gets an Upgrade (Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette)

Mary Hopper attended and took pictures of that event.

Mark I Ceremony, Thursday April 3, 2014

She also took this video of the Mark I running (narrated by Alan Wu).

Here are two blog posts Mary Hopper did at the time.

Mark I Turned on and working! (April 2014)
Winter fun! (Walter Isaacson’s visit to Harvard, December 2014)

Mark I, Move

The Mark I was moved to Harvard’s new Science and Engineering Complex in 2021, and it is housed within a more extensive exhibit about it.

Mark 1, Rebooted (News, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Science
Science and Engineering Complex
150 Western Avenue
Allston 02134

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Science Science and Engineering

Harvard Mark I, Exhibit

Description, Harvard Mark I, Exhibit

The new exhibit features Grace Hopper.

The First Programmer, Harvard Mark I, Exhibit

COBOL

COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper.

The Relationship Between COBOL and Computer Science (Ben Shneiderman, Annals of the History of Computing)

Beginner’s Guide: COBOL Made Easy (Jessielaine Punongbayan, Medium)

COBOL (Encyclopædia Britannica)
COBOL (Wikipedia)