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A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) would go something 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, and is almost overcome by personal challenges but survives them,
and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of the information age, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor
of computer programming. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Dr. Kurt Beyer
goes beyond the screenplay-ready story to reveal a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant, complex, and intriguing woman whose career
paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The first week in December is chosen for “National Computer Science Education Week” in honor of Grace Murray HopperOn October 20th Congress passed House Resolution 558, naming the first week in December as “National Computer Science Education Week” in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, one of the outstanding pioneers in the field of computer
science, who was born on December 9, 1906. She engineered new programming
languages and pioneered standards for computer systems which laid the foundation
for many advances in computer science
from the late 1940’s through the 1970s. In 1971, ACM established the annual Grace Murray Hopper Award for Outstanding Young Computer Professional to recognize
contributions made by computer professionals who were 35 years of age or less,
selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Author Kurt Beyer interviewed by the Smithsonian, listen here
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Grace Hopper now available in book stores Please support your local book stores and pick up a copy of Grace Hopper and
the Invention of the Information Age. The book tells the store of the first 30 years of the computer revolution, and
the critical role that Grace Hopper played during this period.
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Kurt Beyer discussed the contributions of Grace Hopper at USAA's
Distinguished Speaker Series in San Antonio. Click Here for a list of talks and lectures near you.
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Press: Here’ is a Sunday morning news roundtable discussion
show featuring the top names in Silicon Valley's technology industry and world class technology reporters from The New York
Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, Businessweek, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, NPR, the BBC and Fortune. Author Kurt Beyer will be the guest speaker this Sunday, January 10th. The
show will air at 9 am PST on Bay Area NBC and will also be posted at 'Press: Here' online.
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Author Kurt Beyer Interviewed by Smithsonian The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation interviewed author Kurt Beyer about
the career of Grace Hopper, the history of the computer industry, the process of innovation, and the nature of invention.
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Yale President's Freshman Address Yale President Richard Levin bases his 2009 Freshman Address on Grace Hopper and the Invention
of the Information Age.
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Booklist names Grace Hopper and the Invention
of the Information Age a Top Ten Science and Technology book for 2009. "The obsessions of this stellar group of science writers—including polar
bears, a missing aviator, dawn, computer programming, dogs, and antimatter—inspired a year’s worth of significant
and intriguing books." Click Here
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