Adm. Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer.

A pioneering computer scientist and United States Navy officer.

She developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.

She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages.

Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "The Amazing Grace".

She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (motivated by an actual moth removed from the computer). The moth is scotch taped to an early "blog."

An Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is a ship of the United States Navy named for the pioneering computer scientist, Rear Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper.