GRACE HOPPER - ADMIRAL OF THE CYBER SEA - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - NEVER STOP LEARNING

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Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1,

 1992) was an American computer 
scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. A pioneer in 
the field, 

she was one of the first programmers of

the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the

first compiler for a computer programming language. 

She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent 

programming languages, which led to the development 

of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. 

She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing 

computer glitches (inspired by an actual moth removed from 

the computer). Owing to the 

breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is 

sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". 

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) is named 

for her, as was the Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer.

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Dave Israel

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