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Grace Hopper : admiral of the Cyber Sea

Kathleen Broome Williams (Author)
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

eBook, English, 2012
1st Naval Institute Press paperack ed
Naval Institute Press, Annopolis, 2012