Grace Hopper : admiral of the Cyber Sea / Kathleen Broome Williams.

Grace Hopper : admiral of the Cyber Sea / Kathleen Broome Williams.

1st Naval Institute Press paperack ed.

9781612512655 (electronic bk.)
1612512658 (electronic bk.)
9781591149781
1591149789

Annopolis : Naval Institute Press, 2012.

English

1 online resource (xvii, 240 pages)

V63.H66 W55 2012

(OCoLC)818867202

When grace Hooper retired as a rear admiral from the U.S. 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. A mathematician by training who became a computer scientist, the eccentric and outspoken Hoper helped propel the Navy into the computer age. She also was a superb publicist for the Navy, appearing frequently on radio and television and quoted regularly in newspapers and magazines. Yet in spite of all the attention she received, until now ""Amazing Grace, "" as she was called, has n.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Library of naval biography.

Print version: Williams, Kathleen Broome. Grace Hopper. Annopolis : Naval Institute Press, 2012

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