jan 1, 1954 - Grace Hopper

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Hooper is an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She is a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. was part of the team that developed the UNIVAC I computer. In 1949, Hopper became an employee of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician and joined the team developing the UNIVAC I. In 1952, she had an operational link-loader, which at the time was referred to as a compiler. In 1954 Hopper was named the company's first director of automatic programming,

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