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America’s history is full of strong women who left their mark and still inspire us today. This week, I’d like to tell you two stories you may have not have heard before about remarkable women who blazed trails in technology and changed the world forever. One of these pioneers was a witty, brilliant woman named Grace Hopper. She was one of the most influential figures of the technological world in the 20th century.

Hopper was known as the “Queen of Software” for her work on Harvard’s Mark I computer, which revolutionized the war effort in World War II. She is widely credited with the term “debug” after she traced a glitch in the Mark I back to an actual moth that was stuck in circuit wires. When asked how she was able to know so much about computers to help in this discovery, her response was: “I didn’t. It was the first one.”