[hop-er] 
| 1. | Edward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher. |
| 2. | Grace Murray, 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist. |
| 3. | (William) De Wolf [duh-woo lf] , 1858–1935, U.S. actor. |
| Hopper (hŏp'ər) Pronunciation Key
American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL. |