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Grace Hopper<\/a> is the mother of computer science. While there is no douibt that Alan Turing<\/a> is the father of the field, Grace is often overlooked. Driven by the desire to become involved in helping the war effort, Grace joined US Navy Reserves in 1943 [leaving her job teaching Mathematics at Vasser] and immediately started working on the Mark I Computer<\/a>, one of the earliest electronic calculating machines.
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\nAfter the war Grace continued her work in the field, becoming involved in the development of the very first computer ‘languages’ – at the time such machines were laboriously programmed in machine code. Grace’s work was integral in the move towards modern ‘human parsable’ programming languages, most notably COBOL<\/a>. I have painted her in the pose of the Madonna, yet in US Navy robes. Her earrings are in the form of Logic Gates<\/a>, in this case the symbols for AND and NOT.
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\nDuring her time working on the Mark II computer, she discovered a moth<\/a> in a relay while ‘debugging’ the machine. This is often reported as the first computer ‘bug’.
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\nHere she is on the Letterman show in 1986:
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\nAnd here is a timelapse recording of the painting process, music by shardcore:
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