Grace Hopper, born in 1992, is a truly inspiring story of one of the earliest women in STEM. After graduating from Yale with her PhD, she taught at Vassar. She left in 1943 to join Women Accepted for the Voluntary Emergency Service. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, she wanted to join the war effort, and while she was originally rejected due to her gender, she persisted and was eventually let in. She was assigned to the Ships Computation Project at Harvard University. Where she joined a team working on the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, which was the first electromechanical computer in the United States. To help the war effort, she and her group computed rocket trajectories, created range tables for new anti-aircraft guns, and calibrated minesweepers. From 1946 to 1949, she continued to work on the MARK II and MARK III. After the war, Grace Hopper joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in Philadelphia as a senior mathematician, where she worked on UNIVAC, the first all-electronic digital computer. She truly was one of the first modern programmers. She even wrote the first computer programming manual. She helped to pioneer the idea of automatic programming and explored new ways to code computers In the early 50s, Hopper proposed the idea of writing programs in words, rather than symbols, but she was told her idea would not work. FLOW-MATIC was the first programming language to use works and designed for data processing purposes. COBOL (common business-oriented language) introduced as the first business programming language in 1959. By the 1970s COBOL was the most extensively used programming language in the world. It is still being used today in some unemployment systems. Grace Hopper posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. She was the spokesperson for the evolving computer industry. She was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal in addition to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.