I suffer from a little bit of hero worship for Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992). She is often credited with writing the first compiler in 1952, and was an important contributor to the development of COBOL.
There is a crowd-funded effort to produce a documentary on her:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/born-with-curiosity-the-grace-hopper-documentary
I would like to see this documentary succeed because I really would like to know more about her than appears in Wikipedia.
Update: Grace Hopper on Letterman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
She really was charming.
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