Commodore Grace Hopper (center) stands with President Ronald Reagan and members of her family after her promotion ceremony at the White House. From left to right, her family members are nephew Roger Murray III, his wife Linda and daughter Jennifer, and Commodore Hopper`s sister-in-law Agnes Murray I
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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...