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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-10026201310X
ISBN-139780262013109
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038279157
Product Key Features
Number of Pages404 Pages
Publication NameGrace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWomen, Computer Science, History, Science & Technology
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorKurt W. Beyer
Subject AreaComputers, Biography & Autobiography
SeriesLemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.6 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-044229
Reviews"Bravo to Beyer for unearthing the fascinating, many-faceted history...of a phenomenal technology we take for granted and for portraying a woman of astonishing powers." - Booklist, "Beyer's meticulously researched biography shows how Hopper was one of the first torealise that software was the key to unlocking the power of the computer." -- TheGuardian, "Beyer's meticulously researched biography shows how Hopper was one of the first to realise that software was the key to unlocking the power of the computer." -- The Guardian, "Bravo to Beyer for unearthing the fascinating, many-faceted history...of aphenomenal technology we take for granted and for portraying a woman of astonishing powers."Booklist, "Bravo to Beyer for unearthing the fascinating, many-faceted history...of a phenomenal technology we take for granted and for portraying a woman of astonishing powers." Booklist
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal004.092
SynopsisThis is a biography which explores 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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberQA76.2.H67B49 2009
