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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.

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The MIT Press, MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
389

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Subjects
Women computer engineers, Computer science, Biography, History, Women, united states, biography, Engineers, biography, Grace Murray Hopper
People
Grace Murray Hopper
Places
United States

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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
2012, MIT Press
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2009, The MIT Press, MIT Press
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Table of Contents

The myth of amazing Grace
The rebirth of Grace Murray Hopper
The birth of computer programming
The Harvard Computation Laboratory
The beginning of a computing community
The 1947 Harvard symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery
A new beginning, again
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
Conclusion
Glossary
Guide to sources.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, MA
Series
Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation series
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
004.092, B
Library of Congress
QA76.2.H67 B49 2009, QA76.2.H67B49 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
389

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OL22653276M
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ISBN 13
9780262013109
LCCN
2008044229
OCLC/WorldCat
263065377
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8716599
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6501998

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