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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age

text Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age

Beyer, Kurt.

Summary
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 ... Read more
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... Read more
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Description
xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Publisher
The MIT Press 2009
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 HOPPER, GRACE BEY in Adult Non-fiction Available

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