Grace Hopper
GraceHopper
2006-11-20 14:36:39
2007-04-28 14:39:41
Biography
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\emph{Grace Hopper}, n\'ee {\em Grace Brewster Murray} (1906 - 1992) American mathematician, computer engineer and U. S. Navy Admiral.
After earning master's degrees in mathematics and physics from Yale, Hopper taught at Vassar for a few years before joining the Navy, which assigned her to work on the Mark I computer. One day she extracted an insect from the machinery and helped popularize the preexisting term "bug" for computer malfunctions. Later on she worked on a compiler for COBOL.
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