The Myth of Grace: A BIT of Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer
English | 2014 | eISBN: 026231939X, ASIN: B00I5ZB43O | 45 pages | EPUB | 0,5 MB
English | 2014 | eISBN: 026231939X, ASIN: B00I5ZB43O | 45 pages | EPUB | 0,5 MB
This MIT Press BIT is excerpted from the 2009 MIT Press publication Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt W. Beyer.
The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. This BIT describes the myth of "amazing Grace" and tells how she became "the third programmer of the world's first computer."
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