| Name |
Biography |
| Gates,
Bill |
Please see Bill Gates on our Computer People - B
page.
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| Grace
Hopper |
| Formal name: |
Grace Murray Hopper |
| Date of birth: |
December 9, 1906
New York City, USA |
| Date of death: |
January 1, 1992 |
| Contributions: |
- Erroneously credited as coining the term: "bug".
- Extended the meaning of debug.
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| Quotes: |
- "Humans are allergic to change. They love to
say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight
that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs
counter-clockwise."
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| Other: |
- Awarded the National Medal of Technology in
1991.
- The first woman to return to active duty after the
United States Navy was unable to develop a working
payroll plan after 823 attempts. Grace Hopper was
recalled from retirement in order to help standardize
the high-level Naval computer languages.
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| Gordon
Moore |
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