Before there was Jobs or Gates, a genius U.S. Navy rear admiral helped program the Harvard Mark I computer. What was the name of this pioneer for women in computer science?

A pioneer for women in computing, Grace Hopper was responsible for inventing one of the first linkers. Hopper was known for creating the theory of machine-independent programming languages. Before she entered the Navy, she earned a Ph.D. from Yale and taught math at Vassar College.

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