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I will be Grace Hopper for next week's panel. She was a real life computer scientist, and has contributed greatly to the field through her work in developing the first compiler, a computer program that translates source code into machine code, and an early computer language called COBOL among other accomplishments. She also joined WAVES, a WWII division of the US Navy that was made up entirely of women, training at a Naval reserve at Smith College, where she graduated first in her class before going on to help program the Mark I computer.