# Grace Hopper

> She taught computers to understand English. Grace Hopper's insight — that programming languages could be built on words instead of raw machine code — laid the groundwork for COBOL and made software legible to generations of people who would never touch a soldering iron.

*American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1906-12-09
- **Died:** 1992-01-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Grace Hopper held a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale and taught at Vassar before leaving academia to join the Navy Reserve in World War II. In 1944 she joined the Harvard Mark I team and wrote what's considered the first computer manual. By 1949 she was at Eckert–Mauchly, working on UNIVAC I and managing compiler development. She finished her A-0 linker in 1952, led the release of FLOW-MATIC in 1954, and in 1959 helped create COBOL through the CODASYL consortium — a machine-independent language built on English terms that she championed through the 1960s. She retired a rear admiral, collected forty honorary degrees, and in 1991 received the National Medal of Technology. A Navy destroyer, a Cray supercomputer, and a college at Yale all carry her name.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Web Development, #Physics, #AI, #United States, #Americas

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