BookGrace Hopper and the invention of the information age
Personal name
Main title
- Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age / Kurt Beyer.
Published/Created
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
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Description
- xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN
- 9780262013109 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 026201310X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LC classification
- QA76.2.H67 B49 2009
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.
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation
- Lemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
LCCN
- 2008044229
Dewey class no.
- 004.092
Geographic area code
- n-us---
National bib no.
- GBA976406
National bib agency no.
- 015341353
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)ocn263065377
Type of material
- Book
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- QA76.2.H67 B49 2009 LANDOVR
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- Not Charged
CALL NUMBER
- QA76.2.H67 B49 2009 FT MEADE
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