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Kathleen Broome Williams looks at Hopper’s entire career, from the time she joined the WAVES and was sent in 1943 to work on the Mark I computer at Harvard to her achievements in commercial computing after the war, when she gained fame for her part in the creation of COBOL, and her recall to active duty at the Pentagon in 1967– a `temporary’ appointment that lasted for nineteen years. 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