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Nerds You Should Know (cont)

Grace Hopper

 
  • PhD in Mathematics from Yale (1934)
  • Professor of Maths at Vassar (1930's)
  • joined U.S. Navy (research) (1943)
  • worked for a company that's now Unisys (1960's)
  • retired from U.S. Navy as oldest serving officer (1986)
  • coined the term "bug" (1940's, apocryphal)
  • developed the first compiler (1952)
  • helped design the COBOL language (1959)