Grace Hopper was a pioneering computer scientist and a United States Navy rear admiral. Born in 1906, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Hopper's work laid the groundwork for the development of more user-friendly programming languages and she is famous for popularizing the term "debugging" in computing.
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