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  2. May 17, 2024 · Grace Hopper, American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Grace_HopperGrace Hopper - Wikipedia

    Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming.

  4. Apr 3, 2014 · Grace Hopper helped develop a compiler that was a precursor to the widely used COBOL language and became a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. She also coined the term \"computer bug\" and received the National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  5. Grace Hopper was a pioneer of computer technology who invented the first compiler and co-developed COBOL. She also coined the term \"bug\" and served in the Navy Reserve.

  6. lemelson.mit.edu › resources › grace-hopperGrace Hopper | Lemelson

    Grace Hopper was a mathematician, computer scientist, and naval officer who invented the compiler, a program that translates human language into machine code. She also contributed to the development of COBOL, the first standardized computer language, and worked on several early computing machines.

  7. Naval Reserve officer Grace Hopper was a pioneer of computing during World War II, laying the foundation for today’s technology.

  8. Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) was a Yale alumna who invented the first compiler and the first word-based programming language, COBOL. She also served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Cold War, and received many honors and awards for her contributions to computer science.

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