Posted on 09/24/2016 5:12:28 PM PDT by ak267
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992), née Grace Brewster Murray, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral.[1] She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944,[2] invented the first compiler for a computer programming language,[3][4][5][6][7] and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages.
Owing to her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".[8][9] The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) is named for her, as is the Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer at NERSC.[10]
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ENIAC at U of P was driven by vacuum tubes. One day it had a problem which was caused by a vacuum tube with an actual bug inside of it...term eventually became commonly used when software didn't always behave...Hopper wasn't involved.
I was probably one of the last people to teach COBOL in my state. One of my schools was still teaching it 8-10 years ago.
I teach Python and C++ now. :-)
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