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03903aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 A8255E3890F111EA86A69E4897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200508010100 008 120124t20122009mauac b 001 0beng d 020 $a 0262517264 020 $a 9780262517263 035 $a (OCoLC)775026877 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d LTP $d NYP $d HBS $d CDU $d OCLCQ $d GRR $d OCLCO $d OCL $d CHILD $d UKMGB $d CLE $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a QA76.2.H67 $b B49 2012 082 04 $a 004.092 $2 23 100 1 $a Beyer, Kurt. 245 10 $a Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / $c Kurt W. Beyer. 250 $a First MIT Press paperback edition. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Mass. ; $b MIT Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xii, 389 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-379) and index. 520 $a "A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper's later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer goes beyond the screenplay-ready myth to reveal a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant and complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Hopper made herself "one of the boys" in Howard Aiken's wartime Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hopper's greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers."--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a 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. 600 10 $a Hopper, Grace Murray. 600 17 $a Hopper, Grace Murray. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00118017 650 0 $a Women computer engineers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Computer science $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a Computer science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00872451 650 7 $a Women computer engineers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177518 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation. 941 $a 1 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508020405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A8255E3890F111EA86A69E4897128E48 994 $a 92 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search