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| Title: | Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kurt Beyer |
| ISBN: | 9780262013109 (hardcover : alk. paper); 026201310X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index. Content: 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. |
| Description: | xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Kurt Beyer. |
| Named Person: | Hopper, Grace Murray. |
| Year: | c2009. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 2008044229; National Library: 015341353 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: QA76.2.H67; Dewey No.: 004.092 |
| Series: | Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation |
| OCLC No.: | 263065377 |
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