Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Grace Brewster Murray, later known in the software world as Grace Hopper, is born after marrying Vincent Hopper. She has the innate ability to translate scientific problems into mathematical equations and spoken English, which will make her an excellent software programmer. She will teach mathematics before enlisting in the US Navy in June 1944, where, over several decades, she will make fundamental contributions to the development of computer science, not only for the US Navy. For example, she will invent the compiler and high-level programming languages: essentially, she is the first person to think it possible, and make it possible, to communicate with a computer by programming it, in English. This will prove to be a first, enormous step in the most important trend in human history since 1945: the diffusion of digital technology into every aspect of life.
