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Author:

Beyer, Kurt.

Title:

Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Hopper, Grace Murray.
Women computer engineers--United States--Biography.
Computer science--United States--History.
Hopper, Grace.
Informatikerin--USA--Biographie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation

ISBN:

026201310X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262013109 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)263065377

LCCN:

2008044229

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

NOPA983 -- Grafton Public Library (Grafton)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)