Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.
| Author/creator | Beyer, Kurt |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009. |
| Description | xii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Lemelson 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 note | Little-305131060228V |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008044229 |
| ISBN | 9780262013109 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 026201310X (hardcover : alk. paper) |