Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / (Record no. 76656)
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| control field | 0000000000 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20211104033948.0 |
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| fixed length control field | 081020s2009 maum b a001 0beng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262013109 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (AEA)03AFE4EE30694352AB28E3A794F2B987 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA 76.2.H67 |
| Item number | .B468 2009 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Beyer, Kurt. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 110228 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Kurt Beyer. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge, Mass. : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii, 389 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper's later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer reveals a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant and complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Both rebellious and collaborative, Hopper was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hopper's greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers. (www.powells.com) |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer science |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 105130 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Women computer engineers |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 110229 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | American Learning Resource |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | 04/29/2011 | ALRC-001881 | QA 76.2.H67 .B468 2009 | 9ALRC201101881 | 11/04/2021 | 11/04/2021 | American Learning Resource |
