BLUE BELL, Pa., Nov. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation
(NYSE: UIS) today proudly salutes the late Rear Adm. Grace Hopper (1906-1992), whom President
Barack Obama is honoring as a
posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a
White House ceremony today.
The medal is "the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to
individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to
the security or national interests of the
United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other
significant public or private endeavors."
"Grace Hopper richly deserves
this recognition for the role she played in ushering in the digital
era," said Unisys President and CEO Peter
Altabef. "Through her work at Unisys predecessor Sperry
Corporation and earlier constituent companies, as well as in her
long active and reserve service in the U.S. Navy, Adm. Hopper was consistently at the forefront of
innovation in applied IT. She embodies a vision and spirit that
inspire and inform our work at Unisys every day."
Hopper and her team wrote some of the earliest programs for
UNIVAC, the first high-speed digital computer. (UNIVAC was
developed by a predecessor of Sperry Corporation, which merged with
Burroughs Corporation in 1986 to create Unisys.) In doing so, she
pioneered the use of sharable code libraries, making it easier and
faster for software developers to collaborate, and drove
development of the first compilers, making the task of programming
computers much simpler.
Hopper also led international efforts to standardize programming
languages and compilers in order to reduce the time it takes
software developers to create and bring solutions to market.
"Grace Hopper was a true
visionary," said Tarek El-Sadany, senior vice president, Technology
and Chief Technology Officer for Unisys. "She continually sought to
make computers easier to use for programmers and end users alike,
anticipating and driving the ubiquitous use of information
technology that is the hallmark of today's digital age."
About Unisys
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specializes in providing industry-focused solutions integrated with
leading-edge security to clients in the government, financial
services and commercial markets. Unisys offerings include security
solutions, advanced data analytics, cloud and infrastructure
services, application services and application and server software.
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