Today's #quizzytime: Admiral Hopper who won the the Data Processing Management Association Computer Sciences Man of the Year Award also coined a term commonly used by programmers today. What was it?
Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like.
Quiz ends at 2 PM. Google if you like.
Ans: Debug. A mathematics genius and computer pioneer, Grace Hopper created computer programming technology that forever changed the flow of information and paved the way for modern data processing. In 1943, wanting to aid her country during World War II, Hopper joined the
United States Navy. She was soon assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University, where she began her legacy of groundbreaking computer programming with the Mark I, a precursor to electronic computers.
In 1952, Hopper was credited with creating the first compiler for modern computers. Hopper went on to develop the FLOW-MATIC computer programming language (1957) and shortly after, pioneered the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL).
Grace was developing Mark III, and its predecessor – Mark II, while she encountered a problem. After some tests, she has decided to look inside and have found an actual moth – a bug. Thus the term “debugging” was born, as she did (literally) remove the bug.
In 1969 the Data Processing Management Association awarded her the first computer sciences Man of the Year Award , and in 1973, she became the first person from the U.S. and first woman from any country to be recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society.
When idiots ask 'Why didn't women invent as many things as men?" remember the sheer genius of Admiral Grace Hopper, a woman ironically awarded Man of the Year and Distinguished Fellow, and wonder why you haven't heard more about her.
womenofthehall.org/inductee/grace…
womenofthehall.org/inductee/grace…
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