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Women like Grace Murray Hopper made important early contributions to the history of US cryptology, a field concerned with secure data communication and storage. Hopper was a US naval admiral and computer scientist who coined the term "debugging" and invented the first compiler program for translating computer code. In this way, Hopper and others like her helped make it possible for more women-such as Anna Lysyanskaya, who currently works in and teaches digital cryptography-to enter the field of cryptology.