Guide to the Grace Murray Hopper Papers
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| Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 archivescenter@si.edu http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Guide to the Grace Murray Hopper Papers NMAH.AC.0324 Don Darroch 1990
Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 2 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 2 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 3 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 4 Series 1: Technical Documents, 1944 - 1949.......................................................... 4 Series 2: Photographs of MARK II, 1948................................................................. 9 Series 3: Photographs at Harvard, 1944-1945...................................................... 11 Series 4: Reports and Articles, 1946 - 1948.......................................................... 16 Series 5: Eckert-Mauchly Corporation, 1949 - 1965.............................................. 18 Series 6: Compiling Routines, 1952 - 1954........................................................... 24 Series 7: Press Clippings, 1944 - 1953................................................................. 26 Series 8: Periodicals and Brochures, 1950 - 1953................................................ 33 Series 9: Humor File, 1944 - 1953........................................................................ 34 Series 10: Machine Tape, undated........................................................................ 37 Series 11: Audio Visual Materials.......................................................................... 38
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History Title: Grace Murray Hopper Collection Identifier: NMAH.AC.0324 Date: 1944-1965 Extent: 2.5 cubic feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder) Creator: Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906- (mathematician) Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution).
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Collection is in English. Administrative Information Acquisition Information Grace Murray Hopper donated her materials to the National Museum of American History, Section of Mathematics in 1967 and 1968. The majority of the collection was donated through the Museum's Computer Oral History Project in 1972. Provenance Transferred from the Division of Physical Sciences to the Archives Center, February 6, 1989. Related Materials Materials at the Archives Center Computer Oral History Collection (AC0196) This collection contains five oral history interviews with Grace Murray Hopper conducted on: July 1, 1968; November 1, 1968; January 7, 1969; February 4, 1969; and July 5, 1972. Processing Information Collection processed by Don Darroch, 1990. Preferred Citation Grace Murray Hopper Collection, 1944-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History Restrictions Collection is open for research. Grace Murray Hopper Collection NMAH.AC.0324 Page 2 of 38 Conditions Governing Use Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Biographical / Historical Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 1934. She was an associate professor of mathematics at Vassar College when she joined the Women's Reserve of the United States Navy, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1944 and was assigned to the computing project at Harvard University. She served under Commander Howard H. Aiken as a Wave until 1946, and remained at Harvard's Computation Laboratory as a research fellow until 1949. In that year she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician. When Eckert-Mauchly became a division of Remington Rand, Hopper remained as senior programmer, a title she retained until 1959. Subsequently, she served as systems engineer and director of automatic programming development (1959-1964) and staff scientist in systems programming (1964-1971) for the UNIVAC division of Sperry Rand Corporation. Hopper retired from UNIVAC in 1972, having returned to active service in the U.S. Navy from which she eventually retired with the rank of Rear Admiral. Scope and Contents The material includes technical notes, operating instructions and descriptions relating to projects which Hopper participated in at Harvard during and after World War II and later in the private sector. These projects involved the creation of the Navy's Mark I, II and III "mechanical calculators" (the fore runners of today's computers) and the UNIVAC and ENIAC civilian models. The photographs document both equipment and Hopper with her colleagues at work and on social occasions. There are numerous published articles and memoranda by Hopper and others on various technical aspects of computers. Clippings of newspaper and magazine articles relating to computers and their development are also included, as well as periodicals and brochures. A "humor file" contains jokes and anecdotes collected by Hopper. Much of the material is annotated by Hopper, primarily through notations on 3 x 5 white slips of paper. Some of the annotations by Elizabeth Luebbert, who served as a summer research assistant in the Museum's Computer History Project. Arrangement The collection is divided into eleven series. Series 1: Technical Documents, 1944-1949 Series 2: Photographs of Mark II, 1948 Series 3: Photographs at Harvard, 1944-1945 Series 4: Reports and Articles, 1946-1948 Yüklə 1,81 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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