COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Recipient of Computer Science’s first “Man of the Year Award
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Jacquard Moore
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John Napier
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Charles Babbage
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Grace Hopper
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hopper lacked female role models so became one herself. She had a career marked with firsts. In 1969 she was bestowed with the very first Computer Science Man of the Year Award. She also became the first American, and the first woman to become a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1973.
Detailed explanation-2: -Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.
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