Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea Williams Kathleen BroomPaperback
Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea Williams Kathleen BroomPaperback When Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. A mathematician by training who became a computer scientist, the…
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Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea Williams Kathleen BroomPaperback
When Grace Hopper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. A mathematician by training who became a computer scientist, the eccentric and outspoken Hopper helped propel the Navy into the computer age. Navy in 1986, she was the first woman restricted line officer to reach flag rank and, at the age of seventy-nine, the oldest serving officer in the Navy.
Yet in spite of all the attention she received, until now Amazing Grace, as she was called, has never been the subject of a full biography.Kathleen Broome Williams looks at Hopper's entire naval career, from the time she joined the WAVES and was sent in 1943 to work on the Mark I computer at Harvard, where she became one of the country's first computer programmers. She also was a superb publicist for the Navy, appearing frequently on radio and television and quoted regularly in newspapers and magazines. Thanks to this early Navy