One visionary was [Grace Hopper]. Compiled code often runs ... relatively close to machine code and tailored to the British Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester- portability was ...

At the dawn of the computer age, programming was a laborious task carried out in binary notation at the machine level. The ...

Grace Murray Hopper may have been ahead ... which boiled down to creating the first programmable digital computer -- the Mark I. For Hopper, a mathematician with no background in computing ...

Not long ago, people thought computers couldn’t communicate in English! Dr. Grace Hopper put that notion to rest. She also wrote the first computer manual. Trained in mathematics and mathematical ...