Grace Hopper


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Grace Hopper was a force to be reckoned with, and she certainly helped the road of computer science and led the way for women in this field. Her most well-known invention was the creation of the compiler, that intermediate program that translates English instructions into “computerese”, one of the foundations of modern computing.

Another of her claims to fame was the discover of the first computer “bug”, and this was literally true when she came upon a moth trapped within the relay points of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. Her team successfully “debugged” the computer and a new term was born.

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