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Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) (yewtu.be)
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Videos (part 1 and part 2) just released for public viewing this week.

Grace Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."

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[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She was also part of the team that discovered and coined the term “bug” in relation to a computer defect. She didn’t invent the term herself directly, but she was part of the team that did.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

She talks about it in this video.