Jean E. Sammet
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Jean E. Sammet (born 1928) is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language.
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. She was also a member of the subcommitte which created COBOL.
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[edit] Works
- Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, 1969 (ISBN 0-13-729988-5)
- Detailed description of Cobol, 1960
[edit] Awards
- 1997: SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (Jan Lee and Jean E. Sammet)
- 1989 Lovelace Award Recipient
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[edit] External links
- Jean Sammet. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Retrieved on 2007-01-13.
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