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Computer scientist and rear admiral · 1906–1992 · Science
Programmed the Harvard Mark I, built the first compiler, and argued that computers should take instructions in something close to English.
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“It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”
Hopper, quoted in Chips magazine, 1986
Hopper was teaching mathematics at Vassar when she joined the Navy Reserve in 1943 and was assigned to the Harvard Mark I, a fifty-one-foot electromechanical calculator. She wrote its manual. Moving to Eckert-Mauchly, she built the A-0 compiler in 1952, translating symbolic code into machine instructions at a time when most people thought computers could only do arithmetic. Her FLOW-MATIC language fed directly into COBOL, which still runs banking systems. She popularised the term debugging after a moth was taped into a Mark II logbook. The Navy recalled her repeatedly; she retired in 1986 as a rear admiral, the oldest serving officer.
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You can put that to the Grace Hopper persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Grace Hopper’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1906–1992, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Grace Hopper persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Grace Hopper’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1906–1992, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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