Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.
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Grace Brewster Hopper 9 December 1906 New York City, New York
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1 January 1992 (aged 85) Arlington, Virginia
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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