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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.
Van Pelt Library QA76.2.H67 B49 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beyer, Kurt.
- Series:
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hopper, Grace Murray.
- Women computer engineers--United States--Biography.
- Women computer engineers.
- Computer science--United States--History.
- Computer science.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The myth of amazing Grace
- The rebirth of Grace Murray Hopper
- The origins of computer programming
- The Harvard Computation Laboratory
- The beginning of a computing community
- The 1947 Harvard symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery
- Staring into the abyss
- The education of a computer
- IBM answers Remington Rand's challenge
- The development of problem-oriented languages
- Distributed invention matures : Grace Hopper and the development of Cobol
- Inventing the information age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262013109
- 026201310X
- OCLC:
- 263065377
- Publisher Number:
- 99935561570
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