Today's Google Doodle is an animated tribute to computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who was born on Dec. 9, 1906 in New York City.
Hopper is best known for being one of the designers of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages, which was created in 1959 during the Conference on Data Systems Languages.
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COBOL is still in use today, especially by government and military agencies as well as banks.

Hopper also pioneered the implementation of standards for computer systems, including programming languages FORTRAN and COBOL.
From 1969 to 1977, Hopper was the director of the Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy's Office of Information Systems Planning.
Hopper died on Jan. 1, 1992 and was interred with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
The Doodle depicts her working at a huge mainframe, computing her own age, which would today be 107.
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Each package gets larger with a mouse-over, and a click on it returns search results pertinent to a specific country or the particular items featured in a scene. This one is from December 24, 2010.
The Google Doodle team stars in an homage to the silent film era's greatest star's 122nd birthday, April 15, 2011.
This one's done in HTML5 and was published Sept. 7, 2010. To get the full effect, here's one you can interact with.
This Doodle commemorated John Lennon's 70th birthday in October 2010.
Debuting May 10, 2011, this Google Doodle marks dance choreographer Martha Graham's birthday.
Commemorated the birthday of the inventor of the Bunsen burner, German chemist Robert Bunsen on March 31, 2011.
The great inventor's birthday was honored on February 11, 2011.
Marking Independence Day 2010.
A real crowd pleaser was this playable Pac-Man game, which appeared on May 21. 2010. Here's a playable version.
Image: Flickr, Carl Malamud