Grace hopper was one of the pioneers in the early days of electronic computers. Her englishlanguagebased flowmatic was the bedrock of the. Full text of a pocket dictionary of the spanish and english languages. American libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. Grace hopper and the invention of the information age. Browse new releases, best selling titles or classics, with free delivery on eligible orders. Part of the smithsonian little explorer series, grace hopper. Wallmark shares incidents and stories from the scientists remarkable life that illustrate grace being grace, and with these anecdotes, the author paints an engaging portrait of a unique woman in this bright and informative biography. At age seven, hopper dismantled several clocks in her house to find out what made them tick.
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