Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.

Author/creator Beyer, Kurt
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLemelson Center studies in invention and innovation
Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation. ^A717929
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.
Local noteLittle-305131060228V
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008044229
ISBN9780262013109 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN026201310X (hardcover : alk. paper)