10th Day of Women's History Month: Grace Hopper

"We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."~ Grace Hopper

Grace "Amazing Grace" Hopper, born in 1906, was a computer scientist and a United States Navy Rear Admiral.  
In 1943, she took a leave of absence from Vassar and joined the US Navy Reserve (she was one of the women known as a WAVE)--to join, they had to waive the minimum weight requirement, as she weighed 105 lbs. and the minimum was 120 lbs (and who said you wouldn't learn some trivia this month?!).
She's known as the "midwife" of the computer revolution.
In 1944, she worked as a programmer for the Mark I (a machine with 750,000 parts and 500 miles of electrical wire), an early prototype of the electronic computer.  She was also a co-developer of COBOL, one of the earliest standard computer languages. 
We owe so much to the work of Grace Hopper, but she'll be remembered most for coining a computer term we're all very familiar with.  The story goes like this:  One day, during her work on the Mark I, she was checking wires to determine why the computer had mysteriously stopped working.  Hopper discovered that a moth was wedged in a relay.  She extricated the insect with a pair of tweezers and pasted it into a log book, writing, "First actual case of a bug being found."  The term, "computer bug" was hers!