This biography tells the story of the life and accomplishments of Grace Hopper, one of the most influential computer scientists of the 20th century. From her early days as a mathematics professor to her pioneering work in computer programming and software development, Grace Hopper's life was a
Grace Brewster Hopper 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."