Grace Murray Hopper, born in New York City, was the first woman to receive a computer science degree from Harvard University. She was also the first to discover a bug in UNIVAC, which she reported to the US Navy. After the war, she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation where she worked on programming language translation devices. She developed her own programming language, one of the first ones developed for an electronic computer
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During this time she designed many of the first compiler devices used by UNIVAC. She invented the first compiler for higher level languages. Her work at Eckert-Mauchly led to her work at Remington Rand, where she developed FORTRAN, one of the most widely used programming languages in history.
She also believed that computers could be instruments for human learning and education. A few years after retiring from Remington Rand, Grace retired completely from computing to devote her time to education, founding courses at MIT and other universities on programming languages and compilers and becoming a professor emerita at Yale University.