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Grace Murray Hopper
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- A Life Story
It was 1906 in New York City when the great pioneer in data processing, , was born to the parents Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horn Murray. Even as a young child Grace loved learning about mathematics and the new technological advances that were coming out, mostly becau ....
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....lled BINAC was being developed which used the C-10 language. The C-10 according to Grace, "has been the basis for most codes since. 'A' was add, 'M' was multiply, 'B' was bring, 'C' was clear; it was a beautiful code." Grace was then forced to teach herself octal arithmetic, since that is what the code was performed in. A sort time after that, many people started to believe a user-friendlier computer was needed. Grace got to work on it.
Grace was credited with the first compiler in 1952, th.... |
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