One visionary was [Grace Hopper ... to the British Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester- portability was not part of its design. The second reason is that [Hopper] explicitly wanted ...

Grace Murray Hopper may have been ahead ... which boiled down to creating the first programmable digital computer -- the Mark I. For Hopper, a mathematician with no background in computing ...

This is to honour the famous computer scientist, Grace Hopper, who was born on 9th December 1906. The aim is to encourage children of all ages to celebrate and learn about computer science.