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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age
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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age

Author: Kurt Beyer
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Series: Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Grace Murray Hopper
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kurt Beyer
ISBN: 9780262013109 026201310X
OCLC Number: 263065377
Description: xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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.
Series Title: Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
Responsibility: Kurt Beyer.

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