Grace Murray Hopper is one of the inventors of programming languages

Hopper was born Grace Murray Hopper on December 9, 1906 in New York City. She graduated Vassar college in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her master's degree at Yale University in 1930. In 1934, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale.

A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language.She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high level programming languages.

She died in 1992, aged 85.

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