Inventors & Engineers · Digital
Grace Hopper
Navy officer and programming pioneer: Harvard Mark I, the first compiler, English-like languages leading to COBOL, the 'bug' story, the nanosecond wire, and her habits of challenging 'we've always done it this way.'
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Prereqs: Babbage & Lovelace. Next: Turing; Linus Torvalds. Sources: Kurt Beyer, *Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age* (2009); Smithsonian; NSA 1982 lecture.Next: 1. Timeline