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Author Beyer, Kurt.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 HOPPER    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY HOPPER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B HOPPER, GRACE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  004.092 BEYER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  B HOPPER, GRACE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B HOPPER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-HOPPER BEY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B HOPPER, G.M.    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B HOPPER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Biographies  B HOPPER GRACE B    Check Shelf

Description xii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-379) 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.
Summary This is a biography which explores the career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers.
Subject Hopper, Grace Murray.
Women computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer science -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780262013109 (hardcover alkaline paper)
026201310X (hardcover alkaline paper)
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