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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation)

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The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.

Author(s): Kurt W. Beyer
Edition: 1
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 403

Contents
......Page 8
Series Foreword
......Page 10
Acknowledgements
......Page 12
1 The Myth of Amazing Grace
......Page 16
2 The Rebirth of Grace Murray Hopper
......Page 38
3 The Origins of Computer Programming
......Page 60
4 The Harvard Computation Laboratory
......Page 88
5 The Beginning of a Computing Community
......Page 122
6 The 1947 Harvard Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery
......Page 156
7 Staring Into the Abyss
......Page 190
8 The Education of a Computer
......Page 228
9 IBM Answers Remington Rand's Challenge
......Page 262
10 The Development of Problem-Oriented Languages
......Page 278
11 Distributed Invention Matures: Grace Hopper and the Development of COBOL
......Page 292
12 Inventing the Information Age
......Page 326
Notes
......Page 340
Index
......Page 396