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|birthPlace=New York City, NY, USA | |birthPlace=New York City, NY, USA | ||
|deathDate=1992-01-01 | |deathDate=1992-01-01 | ||
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|contributorAchievementDate=1944-03-29 | |contributorAchievementDate=1944-03-29 | ||
|contributorAchievement=One of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer | |contributorAchievement=One of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer | ||
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|other=Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.[1] 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. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create | |other=Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.[1] 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. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL―an early, high-level programming language still in use today. | ||
|referenceURL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper | |referenceURL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper | ||
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Contributors To Computer Science: Grace Hopper
Achievement: 29 March, 1944: One of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer
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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.[1] 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. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL―an early, high-level programming language still in use today.
Born: 6 December, 1906 in New York City, NY, USA
Died: 1 January, 1992 at 85 years of age
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