# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:25:33.205Z

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description: "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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.