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Interesting ,but You Need to be Motivated
I'll keep this short.Reading the author's "Thank You" section, one is clued in that the book was initiated as a request by the The Naval Institute. There is nothing wrong with that, but it completely comes across that the book is more research paper than real biography. For those interested in background on one of the founders of computers and data processing, its a nugget, but one that also could be obtained if we just put the relevant facts on a few pages of a .pdf document. Kathleen Broome's imprint is her continuous comparison of Adm. Hooper's perception of the role / success of women in the computing field to what contemporary history would say. On the positive side, is some excellent background on the origins of COBOL.It's OK but you really have to want to read about Grace.

A Very Impressive Lady!
Grace Hopper's contributions to computing were very impressive - I knew that before reading this book because I was a COBOL programmer.Nonetheless, "Admiral of the Cyber Sea" provided a very informative and interesting biography of this lady.It was also interesting to learn of the signal achievements of her siblings - reminding me of President Eisenhower, one of many "stars" in his household.

Born in 1906, Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar, and got a PhD in mathematics from Yale in 1933.She married in '43, and divorced 15 years later.During WWII she followed her grandfather (an admiral) and joined the Navy - WAVES division.At that time she wrote programs for the Mark I computer housed in Harvard - focus was on ballistic trajectories, and accomplished at the speed of 3 operations/second.The Mark I was an electro-mechanical giant - 50' long, 8' tall, and 8' deep, with 3 million wire connections and weighing about 5 tons, and only having 72 words of storage.

The term "Bug" came about when the Mark II was stopped by a relay failure - a moth had been trapped inside one of the relays.The moth was fished out, and taped to the computer's log book.

Hopper then went to work on compiler development, having foreseen their potential for drastically reducing programming efforts while reducing "bugs."Retired from the Navy Reserve in 1966 as a Commander.

However, the Navy soon realized it needed Hopper's continue service, and brought her back.She was impatient with bureaucracy - and displayed it with a clock that ran backwards and a Jolly Roger flag on her desk.One might suspect that Hopper would be one wedded to the "big iron" computers of her day - however, she early on saw the potential and value of microcomputers, and for networking minis.

Commodore Hopper received her new rank (equivalent to today's Rear Admiral) in 1983 at a White House ceremony attended by President Reagan.Retirement took place 12/86 on the deck of the U.S.S. Constitution - the Navy's oldest commissioned ship.The very next day civilian Hopper, twice retired from the Navy, reported for full-time work at DEC.

Grace Hopper died in 1992 at the age of 80, having worked and given almost daily speeches cross-country until the prior Summer.Truly an inspirational achiever!

An admirable lady described byless admirable author
I had a chance to hear Grace Hopper speak in 1970's in the early days of my own computer career.She was impressive then, and, after reading this book,I'm even more impressed by her career and her accomplishments, which were underrepresented in the 'computing history' to which I had previously been exposed.Through interviews and delving into untold amount of original source material, Ms. Williams has found MANY fascinating tidbits about Grace and the environment in which she lived and worked. For example, Grace DIDN'T invent the term computer bug.However, the interesting facts are strung together in an oft times confusing narrative - it took me much longer to read than usual. And the index didn't mention her engaging physical representation of a nanosecond.A worthwhile book, nonetheless, for those interested in computing history, and/or women who made a difference in technology.

The Admiral was a lady.
I was at a coctail party at a computer show when this lady in a white Navy uniform came it. It was Grace Hopper. Someone asked her for an autograph. Admirals don't need to carry pens around, so I promptly offered her mine. And after she signed one of her business cards for him, I said that I'd like one also, so she signed another. I still have it.

This all came back to me as soon as I saw this book. I picked it up, I opened it to a page where it talks about her first reporting to Howard Aiken at Harvard to work on the Mark I computer. Aiken handed her a manual and told her to write a program. Almost exactly twenty years after she was given the manual, the Army did exactly the same to me - here's a manual, here's the equasion I want solved.

Even in her advanced years at the time I met her, she was still one very bright lady. This was in the very early days of the PC, and she had a basic understanding that enabled her to predict many of the things that were going to happen while the rest of were stumbling around thinking about word processing.

Grace Hopper was quite a lady, and that's reflected in this book. Between 1934 and 1937 hers was the only Ph.D. in mathematics awarded to a female. It was quite a life that she led, and that too is reflected in this book. Adm. Hopper lived in a time when women didn't need to be educated, they were just going to be housewives, and they certainly weren't going to be Navy Admirals. This book is a story of one remarkable woman, but more than that it's the story of computing and of our changing times. ... Read more

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Winning entry, General Trade Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2010 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston.

A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper's later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer goes beyond the screenplay-ready myth to reveal a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant and complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry.

Hopper made herself "one of the boys" in Howard Aiken's wartime Computation Laboratory at Harvard, then moved on to the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation. Both rebellious and collaborative, she was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hopper's greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers.

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Fascinating combination of biography and history.
Difficult to write a review of this book because the eight existing reviews have already expressed a lot of my thoughts.

I was trained on UNIVAC computers in 1962.Eventually, spent 21 years of my life programming computers.Got a chance to chat with Grace Hopper a couple of times in her Pentagon office back in 1970.

This book does a masterful job of telling how it all came about especially from the perspective of someone who's done a lot of programming.

When I got involved with UNIVAC computers in 1962, the invention of the basics of the digital computer and high order programming languages were essentially complete.I found it fascinating to read about the early machines and the struggle by the programmers to communicate with them and to get the results they needed.The technical descriptions of the machines involved don't tell me as much about what's really going on as the descriptions of the early efforts to program them.

A great read.A much needed combination of biography and history.

History vs biography -- history won
This book brought home to me the difference between history and biography.As a 50-year computer veteran (wrote my first program in 1959) I appreciated many of the firsts and trends that the author highlights.However, I got very little sense of Grace Hopper the person behind the technical and organizational achievements he celebrates.As an example, did she really just casually discard a marriage in order to enlist in the Navy?We're told she had a wonderful sense of humor but in the entire book there's only one example of an office prank she instigated.The author packs the last 20 years of her life into the last 25 pages of the book, and much of that was interspersed with retrospective material.Surely there was more to Cmdr Hopper's life in those years than her honors and awards, but we see none of it.

As history, however, the book misses one of Hopper's most important contributions -- the notion of an industry-wide standard.Hopper's work to convene the CODASYL group was the first of a long line of standards efforts (including ICANN and the rest of the Internet infrastructure) without which the Information Age would have withered for lack of cross-enterprise fertilization.

Grace Hopper Review
Excellent book for someone who has been a programmer. It shows the beginning of programming languages, compilers, flow charts all though the eyes of the first woman in computers, Grace Hopper.

The book was a little slow in the beginning and then picks up speed.

It also helps understand how different management styles played a role in early computer development.

a good read
I bought this for my husband for his birthday. He is a computer engineer. He read the book in three or four days and enjoyed it. We bought a second copy for my sister for Christmas.

Grace Hopper is hot
Well you only need to look at the cover of this book to realize that it is going to be a good read. When last did you see a computer programmer that looked like this! All I can say is . Not only does Grace look beautiful on the cover, but the black satin finish of this well proportioned hardcover adds to the appeal. The way she subtly grasps her left hand with her right while nonchalantly cradling her cigarette seems to say 'I mean business'. And her hair fading into the dark background suggests a military firmness that served her well. Of course none of that touches on the true greatness of this book, which is to herald a true pioneer of modern day computing. Without Grace Hopper, we might not have programming as it exists today. This is one rear admiral that truly floats my boat! ... Read more

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Inspire your daughter to study math
My eight-year-old daughter and I read this book together, and we loved it.If you are disturbed that Larry Summers of Harvard thinks women can't do math, reading about Grace Hopper will calm you down.Not only was she a math and computer genius, but she was also a high-ranking naval officer who served well past the normal retirement age."Grace Hopper: Computer Whiz" should be an inspiration to both girls and boys, and this book can also inspire parents to read the recent adult biography of Grace Hopper. ... Read more

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Grace always wanted to know how things could be done. Transforming her childhood curiosity into a long and successful career, Grace became a respected Navy officer and a key figure in the computer revolution. This biography traces the development of computers along with the life of Grace. ... Read more

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Great overview of a Great Lady
I knew of Grace Hopper from my days at the Pentagon. She was a legend and an inspiration. The book gives a great overview of Adm. Hopper and her work. The book is appropriate for third to fifth graders.

An officer, a programmer and a lady
While Ada Lovelace is heralded as the first computer programmer and has a programming language named after her, the woman who has had the greatest impact on computing was Grace Hopper. In the vast collection of role models for young women, there is none better. She was not only a pioneer in expanding the roles of women, but also in the development of what computing is today. Considered to be the grandmother of the language COBOL, much of her early work formed the basis for computing as we know it. And yet, she was a no-nonsense career officer in the Navy.
To understand her approach, consider what she did when assigned a Pentagon office with no furniture or supplies. Rather than waste time filling out the required forms she told her staff. "If you need something, `liberate' or borrow it from the Air Force . . . If you can't get it from there, get it from the Army. They have almost everything, and they don't know how to count." Her two distinctive office symbols were a skull-and-crossbones flag and a clock that ran backwards.
A truly inspiring story that shows the value of determination and non-conformity, this book should be required reading of all early adolescents. Maybe someday justice will be served and there will be a programming language named after Grace Hopper. Without question, it is an honor she deserves.

Originally published in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, reprinted with permission.

this book was very exquisit to me.this book is great also.
we'll all im going to say is that i look up to ms.hopper because she is a strong willed woman and is not afraid of anything.i want to be just like grace hopper. ... Read more

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Excellent for teaching!
I teach GED class for adults.This book was a great (small) book for adults to read that have hesitations toward learning about history or even reading.Reading level ranges between 4-7.This is an excellent story and great teachings on the beginning of computers and computer programming.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Grace Hoopper
I like it this book because it talks about her life.I also like it because you also learn about her life.If you read the book you will like it.The genre is biography.[Vanessa Luna] ... Read more

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