| Grace Hopper's Naval Reserve Medal | |
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Origin |
Grace Hopper |
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Type |
Naval Reserve Medal |
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Effects |
When worn translates binary into wearer's primary language |
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Downsides |
Over use reverses effect. |
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Activation |
Worn |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 Agents |
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Section |
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Aisle |
993-4340-4400 |
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Shelf |
9348-45430437 |
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Date of Collection |
01.2001 |
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Origin[]
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906 – 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944 who invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. It was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL (an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language), one of the first high-level programming languages. Owning to her accomplishments and her naval rank, she was sometimes referred to as “Amazing Grace”. The US Navy Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper is named for her, as is the Cray XE6 “Hopper” supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center. In the spring of 1959, at a two-day conference known as the Conference on Data Systems Languages bringing together computer experts from industry and government. Hopper served as a technical consultant to the committee and, along with several former employees, defined the new language COBOL. Hopper's belief was that programs should be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machines code.
Effects[]
When worn translates binary into wearer's primary language. Over usage reverses effect permanently making it so that all words they see are in binary.