Jean Sammet
Jean Sammet · Technology & Engineering
COBOL designer; created the FORMAC computer-algebra system.
1928, New York City, United States — 2017, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
United States
Jean Sammet is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — COBOL designer; created the FORMAC computer-algebra system.
Jean E. Sammet was an American computer scientist who was one of the designers of COBOL, the business programming language that dominated commercial computing for decades, and who created the FORMAC computer-algebra system for symbolic mathematics. She later became the first female president of the ACM. She is Jewish.
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COBOL designer; created the FORMAC computer-algebra system.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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