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Who chose Hopper to lead their department for automatic programming in 1954?

  • IBM

  • Eckert–Mauchly

  • Microsoft

  • Apple

Answer

In 1954, Grace Hopper was chosen to lead the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation's department for automatic programming. This department was responsible for developing software for the UNIVAC I computer, which was the first commercial computer in the United States. Hopper was instrumental in developing the first compiler, which translated human-readable code into machine code that the computer could understand.
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