David Smith, headmaster at Brewster Academy, speaks during the ceremony to dedicate the Grace Murray Hopper Center for Computer Learning. Captain Grace Hopper stands to the left. Rear Admiral Paul Sutherland, commander, Naval Data Automation Command, stands in the background
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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992
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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. 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-l...