Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age
By: Kurt W. Beyer.
Series: Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation series
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780262013109
Subjects: Hopper, Grace Murray; Women computer engineers -- United States -- Biography; Computer science -- United States -- History
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The myth of amazing Grace; title: The rebirth of Grace Murray Hopper; title: The birth of computer programming; title: The Harvard Computation Laboratory; title: The beginning of a computing community; title: The 1947 Harvard symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery; title: A new beginning, again; title: The education of a computer; title: IBM answers Remington Rand's challenge; title: The development of problem-oriented languages; title: Distributed invention matures : Grace Hopper and the development of Cobol; title: Conclusion; title: Glossary; title: Guide to sources.