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050			_aQA 76.2.H67 _b.B468 2009
100			_aBeyer, Kurt. _9110228
245		0	_aGrace Hopper and the invention of the information age / _cKurt Beyer.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bMIT Press, _cc2009.
300			_axii, 389 p. : _bill. _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aThe 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			_aA 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			_aComputer science _zUnited States _9105130
650			_aWomen computer engineers _zUnited States _9110229
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