One visionary was [Grace Hopper]. Compiled code often runs ... relatively close to machine code and tailored to the British Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester- portability was ...

Grace Murray Hopper may have been ahead ... which boiled down to creating the first programmable digital computer -- the Mark I. For Hopper, a mathematician with no background in computing ...

and marked their entry into what we would now call the computer industry. Numerous computing luminaries used the Mark I, aside from its designer Howard Aiken. Grace Hopper, Richard Bloch ...