Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea (Library of Naval Biography)

Grace Hopper, a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science who propelled the Navy into the computer age, retired from the US Navy as a rear admiral in 1986 at the age of 79. Drawing on interviews with Hopper's colleagues and family and on archival material, Williams (history, Bronx Community College) looks at Hopper's entire naval career. B&w