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Synopsis
Chronicles the life and career of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper, who was instrumental in the development of such programming languages as COBOL, and eventually became the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy.
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About the Author
Kathleen Broome Williams, a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University, holds a Ph.D. from City University of New York. She is the author of Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea, a North American Society for Oceanic History award winner, Secret Weapon: U.S. High-Frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic, and Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, which won a History of Science Society book award. Currently, she is a professor of history at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California, and lives in Oakland, CA.
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One of the most important women in the history of computers and the U.S. Navy, Hopper was born Grace Murray in 1906. Her well-to-do family believed in educating daughters, as well as sons, and she ended up with a doctorate in mathematics in the 1930s. That qualified her for work as a WAVE officer on early computers during World War II. Her career survived a divorce, though she temporarily left the navy to help develop COBOL. She returned as a reserve officer and, before retiring in 1986 as a rear admiral and the oldest serving officer in the navy, did enough work for three people in bringing the navy into the computer age. Her indefatigability carried her through a great many barriers as if they had not existed, and her love for the navy let her make allowances for obstacles she could not surmount. Williams' book on her is well done, badly needed (though there have been several children's books on her), and a credit to the publisher's Library of Naval Biography series. Roland Green
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- PublisherNaval Institute Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1557509522
- ISBN 13 9781557509529
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
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