Grace Hopper was a brilliant mathematician who helped teach some of the very first computers how to work! She made it much easier for people to write programs and tell computers what to do. Grace is one of the most important people in the history of computers!
Grace invented a special program that translated human words into computer code, making computers much easier to use. She was also famous for finding a real-life bug inside a computer! One day, her giant computer stopped working, and she found a tiny moth stuck inside the machine. She taped the moth into her notebook and called it a “bug.” Even today, when computers have a problem, we still call it a “bug” thanks to Grace!
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