Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 December 1906
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Grace Hopper quotes about
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.