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Evelyn Berezin

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Evelyn Berezin · Technology & Engineering

What

Designed an early computerized word processor and reservation systems.

When

1925, The Bronx, New York, USA — 2018, New York, USA

Where

New York

Biography

Evelyn Berezin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Designed an early computerized word processor and reservation systems.

How & why

Evelyn Berezin was an American computer designer who built one of the first computerized airline reservation systems and, in 1971, the Data Secretary — widely regarded as the first true word processor. Born in the Bronx to Belarusian Jewish immigrant parents, she founded the Redactron Corporation to manufacture her invention and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Designed an early computerized word processor and reservation systems.

1925

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science