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Birth Name: Grace Brewster Murray
Born: 9 December 1906 Died: 1 January 1992
Country of origin: 
United States
Height: 5' 6"
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Vincent Foster Hopper
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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 popularized 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 accompli
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Movies
1. CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (2015)
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TV
1. 60 Minutes (1968)
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