Bibliograph

Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age, Kurt Beyer

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Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age, Kurt Beyer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

263065377

Responsibility statement

Kurt Beyer

Series statement

Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation

Table Of 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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