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Grace Murray Hopper was a 20th-century American computer scientist and naval officer. Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”
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