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Grace Hopper

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(person)Grace Hopper - US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01), née Grace Brewster Murray.

Hopper is believed to have concieved the concept of the compiler with the A-0 in 1952. She also developed the first commercial high-level language, which eventually evolved into COBOL. She worked on the Mark I computer with Howard Aiken and with BINAC in 1949.

She is credited with having coined the term "debug", and the adage "it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" (with various wordings), which has been the guiding principle in sysadmin decisions ever since.

See also the entries debug and bug.

Hopper is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1994, the US Navy named a new ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper, after her.


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Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) announces that the Standard Procurement System (SPS) has been awarded a Grace Hopper Government Technology Leadership Award.
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WOMEN'S CONFERENCE: Promoting the feminine role in a technological world, science professionals and academics will gather in San Jose this fall for the second annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference.
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The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) announced today that their bi-annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, which concluded Saturday in San Diego, will become an annual event.
Anita Borg Institute Sets Plans for 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration by Business Wire
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