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Hopper, Grace Brewster (nee Murray)
US admiral and computer scientist
removed moth from malfunctioning Mark II computer 1947, helping to popularize colloquial term "bug" for the cause of a device malfunction
main developer of computer language COBOL 1960
helped develop concept of compiler
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