Grace Hopper
publication date: Thursday, December 15, 2011 (part of Winter 2012)
category: 
Military
clue: Somebody had to help the Navy work out the bugs in COBOL, and this officer was up to the task.
explanation: Hopper was an influential computer scientist for the U.S. Navy, who developed machine-independent programming languages like COBOL, and coined the term "debugging." more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Denise Sawicki, Joanna Woods, Erik Bates, Mike Rothstein, Steve Dunn, and Ryan Dunn
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