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Beyer, Kurt.
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Hopper, Grace Murray.
Women computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer science -- United States -- History.
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Beyer, Kurt.
Hopper, Grace Murray.
Women computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer science -- United States -- History.
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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.
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Beyer, Kurt.
MIT Press, c2009.
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.092
H798b
Subjects
Hopper, Grace Murray.
Women computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Computer science -- United States -- History.
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Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
ISBN:
9780262013109 (hardcover : alk. paper)
026201310X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
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.
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