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What year was Grace Hopper born?

  • 1901

  • 1906

  • 1911

  • 1916

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Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906, in New York City. She was a mathematician and computer scientist who made many important contributions to the field of computing. In 1944, she developed the first compiler, a program that translates human-readable code into machine-readable code. This work made it possible for programmers to write programs that could be run on different types of computers.
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