Article ID: CBB269842227

Grace Hopper, Computer Pioneer (Winter 2020)

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Fenster, Julie M. (Author)


American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Volume: 26
Issue: 1

ISSN: 8756-7296

Publication Date: Winter 2020
Journal Abbreviation: AHIT
Edition Details: Special issue: 50 Women Inventors and Innovators
Physical Details: No pages for on-line version.
Language: English

One of the first computer programmers, she helped develop the widely used COBOL language and became a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.

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Authors & Contributors
Puaca, Laura Micheletti
Burton, M.
V. L. Allan
Wolverton, Mark
C. S. Leedham
Zachmann, Karin
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Women's History Review
Western Historical Quarterly
Environmental History
Chemical Heritage
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Oxford University Press
MIT Press
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
Springer
IEEE
Concepts
Women in science
Science and gender
Science education and teaching
Computers and computing
Conservation of natural resources
Environmentalism
People
Hopper, Grace Murray
Simpson, Joanne
Fischer, Irene Kaminka
Moore, Willie Hobbs
Hoffleit, Dorrit
Douglas, Marjory Stoneman
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Tropics
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Sweden
Institutions
Women's Engineering Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
International Business Machines Corporation
Georgia Institute of Technology
Cavendish Laboratory
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