Grace Hopper (dec 9, 1906 – jan 1, 1992)
Description:
- She developed UNIVAC, the first general-use computer. It was derived from the ENIAC, and was the processed the data faster than any other machine at the time.- She designed the language COBOL, and built the first program that interprets English code to binary code. Her work laid the foundation for modern coding languages.
- Her ambitions and achievements shaped computer science as they predicted many trends in computer programming.
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Date:
dec 9, 1906
jan 1, 1992
~ 85 years