Grace Murray Hopper

Grace Murray Hopper, 1906-1992. Early computer pioneer, third programmer of the Harvard Mark I and generally credited with writing or being very closely involved with writing the first compiler A-0 in a time when most people considered the best way to program a computer was in octal.

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