Information Technology Career Profile Sheet – Unit 3

1. Name: Christina Lee

2. Date: 11/24/2020

3. Career Title: Software Development

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12. Innovation:

The innovation that I chose for this assignment are known as linkers which are used for, of course,
linking. Linking is defined as the process of collecting data combining various pieces of code and data
into a single file that can be copied, or loaded, into memory and executed. Linking nowadays is
preformed automatically by programs called linkers. Linkers play an extremely crucial role in software
development because they enable something called separate compilation. This means that oppose to
organizing a large application as one monolithic source file, we can decompose it into smaller and more
manageable modules that can be modified and compiled separately. Linkers are important because they
help you build large programs, help to avoid dangerous programming errors, helps you understand
other important system concepts, and enables you to exploit shared libraries.

13. Innovator: Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (December 9,1906- January 1,1992) was the innovator of
the first linker. She was an American computer scientist as well as a United States Navy rear admiral. She
was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. Hopper was also the first to devise
the theory of machine-independent programming language known as FLOW-MATIC. This theory was
later extended creating COBOL which is an early high-level programming language that is still in use
now.