developed Flow-Matic
early pioneer in HW-abstraction,
mathematician, rear Admiral in the US Navy research

entered Navy in 1943 to work for Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard
worked with **Aiken on Harvard Mark I, 3rd person to program it;
worked on Harvard Mark II after war
joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation as a Senior Mathematician in 1949
discovered 1st computer "bug"
finished Flow-Matic, the first English-language data-processing compiler in 1952: "Nobody believed that," she said. "I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic."
retired from the Navy at age 80
the first woman to receive America's highest technology award as an individual;
http://www-groups.cs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hopper.html