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Name Biography
Gates, Bill Please see Bill Gates on our Computer People - B page.
Grace Hopper
Formal name: Grace Murray Hopper
Date of birth: December 9, 1906
New York City, USA
Date of death: January 1, 1992
Contributions:
  1. Erroneously credited as coining the term: "bug".
  2. Extended the meaning of debug.
Quotes:
  • "Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."
Other:
  • Awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1991. 
  • The first woman to return to active duty after the United States Navy was unable to develop a working payroll plan after 823 attempts. Grace Hopper was recalled from retirement in order to help standardize the high-level Naval computer languages.
Gordon Moore
Formal name: Gordon E. Moore
Date of birth: January 3, 1929
San Francisco, California, USA
Contributions:
  1. Helped start Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
  2. Co-founded Intel with Robert Noyce in 1968.
  3. Made an observation in 1965, that later became widely known as Moore's Law.
Other: Eugene Kleiner, Gordon Moore, Jerry Sanders, Robert Noyce
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