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=Admiral Grace Hopper=

Grace Hopper was an american computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one the first programmers of the Harvard Mark 1 computer, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term debugging for fixing computer glitches. Owning to the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as Amazing Grace. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper is named for her as was the Cray XE6 Hopper supercomputer at NERSC. Birth date: December 9, 1906 Death date: January 1, 1992 College: Phi Beta Kappa

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