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title: Grace Hopper
schema: Person
tags: [computing, navy, compilers]
---

# Grace Hopper

Pioneer of computer science and United States Navy rear admiral. This note uses
an explicit schema reference rather than relying on type matching.

## Observations
- [name] Grace Hopper
- [role] Computer scientist and Navy rear admiral
- [expertise] Compiler design
- [expertise] Programming language theory
- [email] grace.hopper@navy.mil
- [fact] Developed one of the first linkers and popularized machine-independent languages
- [fact] Coined the term "debugging" after finding an actual bug in a computer

## Relations
- works_at [[United States Navy]]
- contributed_to [[COBOL]]
- contributed_to [[UNIVAC]]