Grace Hopper

An American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.

• She was born on 9 December 1906.
• One of the first computer programmers to work on the Harvard Mark I computer.
• She helped develop COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages.

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was involved in the creation of UNIVAC, the first all-electronic digital computer. She invented the first computer compiler, a program that translates written instructions into codes that computers read directly. This work led her to co-develop the COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages.

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