Jean E. Sammet

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Jean E. Sammet (born 1928) is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962.

She received her B.A. in Math from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and her M.A. in Math from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949. She spent 27 years at IBM where she developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas. She was also a member of the subcommittee which created COBOL.

Contents 1 Works 2 Awards 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Works

• Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, 1969 (ISBN 0-13-729988-5)
• Detailed description of Cobol, 1960

[edit] Awards

• 1989 Lovelace Award Recipient
• 1994: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
• 1997: SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (Jan Lee and Jean E. Sammet)

[edit] See also

• COMIT
• Grace Hopper
• List of computer scientists
• Women in computing

[edit] External links

• Jean Sammet. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.

• Biography 1
• Biography 2
• Sammet's participation in UNIVAC conference Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota