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__Grace Murray Hopper__


Grace Murray Hopper was born on the 9th of December 1906, In New york, New york, and died on the 1st of January 1992. Grace was a computer programmer, inventor and a mathematician. She was a computer scientist. Grace Murray Hopper was most well-known for inventing the flow-matic, which was an early computer software that that translates instructions In English. She was also well known for popularising the term �Debugging� your computer, which means to get the viruses or �bugs� out of your computer. Grace Murray Hopper received a number of awards, In 1961 she received the inaugural "computer sciences man of the year" award. In 1973, Grace became the first woman of any nationality and person from the united states to be made a distinguished fellow of the British computer society. In 1987 she became a computer history museum fellow award reciptant. In 1988 she received the golden gavel award at the toast masters international convention in Washington, DC. In 1991 she won the national medal of technology. In 1996 USS hopper (DDG-70) was launched. It was nicknamed "Amazing Grace". It is on a very short list of US military vessels named after women. In 2001 Eavan Boland wrote a poem dedicated to Grace titled "Code". In 2009 the department of energy's National energy research scientific computering centre named its flagship system "Hopper". A well-known quote by Grace is, �It is easier to ask for forgiveness rather than asking for permission�. If I were to become a scientist, I would become a palaeontologist. I think it would be interesting and really good to find out about ancient bones and about dinosaurs.