https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-12T09:46:05+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2025-06-27T18:17:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/history/top?rev=1751048234&do=diff The History of Computing at Vassar [left to right: Nancy Ide, Winifred Asprey, Grace Hopper] Photo wall in Asprey Lab: Matriarchs of Computing Winifred Asprey Central to the history of computing at Vassar College is its founder, Winifred Asprey. Ms. Asprey, or Tim as she liked to be called, graduated from Vassar in 1938, and regularly told students that she had more fun here as a student than they ever had. After teaching at a few private schools in New York City and Chicago, text/html 2025-05-29T20:28:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/history/hopper?rev=1748550486&do=diff The Grace Hopper '28 Home Page Grace Murray (1906-1992) was a Math/Physics major at Vassar who graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1928. She stayed at Vassar to teach, and became Grace Murray Hopper in 1930, after marrying Vincent Hopper. With the help of a Vassar College Fellowship, she went to Yale for graduate school, earning her Ph.D. in 1934. She remained at Vassar until 1943, inspiring many students including text/html 2016-05-17T19:45:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/history/asprey?rev=1463514352&do=diff Winifred Asprey WINIFRED ASPREY '38, was Professor Emeritus and the founder of the Computer Science Department at Vassar College. See our page: “” for the history of Ms. Asprey and computing at Vassar College. Article about Prof. Asprey on the Vassar Innovators web site. Campus announcement of the passing of Ms. Asprey, October 19, 2007 text/html 2025-07-08T16:05:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/history/holdeen-adams_prize?rev=1751990711&do=diff Computer Science Department Awards Janet Holden Adams Prize Established in 1998 by the gift of Janet Holden Adams, a long-time supporter of computer science at Vassar, this prize is awarded for excellence in the study of computer science and for outstanding participation in the activities of the department. The recipients shall be named each spring by the faculty of the Department of Computer Science. Their names shall be announced at the Vassar Annual Prize Ceremony