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GRACE HOPPER AND THE INVENTION OF THE INFORMATION AGE
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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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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.
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.
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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