by Kurt W Beyer
Software development, 6
Sorting, binary, 198, 199
Sort-merge generator, 198–202
Sperry Rand, 274, 290, 291
Stibitz, George, 69
Storage technology, 158, 159
Stored-program architecture, 120, 121, 152, 192, 193
Straus, Henry, 186, 187, 199–201
Subroutines, 96–106, 195, 196, 222, 223, 228–235
Suicide threats, Hopper’s, 206, 207
Tapes
data, 59
magnetic, 184, 198–204
sequence, 59
Teaching career, Hopper’s, 26–30
Technology, history of, 18–22
Travis, Irvin, 181
Turing, Alan, 107
UNIVAC, 105, 172, 181–184
C-10 code and, 193–196
demand for, 251–254
design, 183–184, 198, 199
and Eisenhower-Stevenson election, 249–251
investment capital for, 184–187, 200–204
Remington Rand and, 208–212
sales and support for, 216–220, 252–254
University of Pennsylvania, 8
USS Grace Hopper, 2
Vacuum tubes, 69, 90
Vassar College, 25–32
von Neumann architecture, 9
von Neumann, John, 8, 9, 96, 104
and AMC, 168, 169
and “First Draft,” 111–113, 116–122, 152, 181, 182
and flow charts, 193
and Harvard Symposium, 153, 154
and Mark I, 111–116
War Powers Act, 24
Watson, Thomas, Jr., 201–203, 256–259
Watson, Thomas, Sr., 109, 135, 172, 185, 201, 202
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), 31, 32
Weaver, Warren, 77
Wheeler, David, 97
Wiener, Norbert, 152, 153
Wilkes, Maurice, 64, 65, 83, 84, 96, 97, 104–106, 157, 197, 198
Women, career opportunities for, 3–5
World War II, 3, 4, 23, 24, 30–34, 52, 53, 89–91, 107
Zierler, Neal, 263, 264