Who is the legendary computer scientist famously associated with the first physical 'computer bug' and often referred to as the 'Mother of COBOL'?

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Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and a pioneer who developed the first compiler, which paved the way for modern programming languages. She is famously credited with popularizing the term 'debugging' after her team discovered a literal moth trapped in a Mark II computer relay in 1947. Her work on the FLOW-MATIC language served as the primary foundation for COBOL, making computer code more accessible by using English-like commands.

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