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Grace Murray Hopper: Working to Create the Future (Lives Worth Living)
Grace Murray Hopper Working to Create the Future - Lives Worth Living Author:Carl J. Schneider, Dorothy Schneider Rear Admiral, U.S.N.(Ret.), Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was a remarkable woman who rose to the challenges of programming the first computers. A true visionary, Adrimal Hopper saw that a very wide audience could use computers if tools that were both programmer-friendly and application-friendly were available. To that end she devoted herself to convin... more »cing military, scientific, and business managers that English language compilers were feasible. Admiral Hopper was an inspirational professor and public speaker who felt her greatest contribution had been "all the young people I've trained." Her vision of the future and inspirational powers truly made hers "a Life Worth Living."
The Sofwest Press Lives Worth Living Series consists of biographies of men and women whose lives illustrate a primary virtue of good character. The books in the series are written for the young reader in middle school or junior high school and will be useful in research projects, book reports, and for general interest.« less