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. Sammet was president of the ACM from 1974 to 1976.
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Works
- Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals, 1969 (ISBN 0-13-729988-5)
- Detailed description of Cobol, 1960
Awards
- 1989 Lovelace Award Recipient
- 1994: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 1997: SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (Jan Lee and Jean E. Sammet)
See also
External links
- "Jean Sammet". California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/sammet.html. Retrieved 2007-01-13.
- Biography 1
- Biography 2
- Sammet's participation in UNIVAC conference, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 171-page transcript of oral history with computer pioneers, including Jean Sammet, involved with the Univac computer, held on 17-18 May 1990. The meeting involved 25 engineers, programmers, marketing representatives, and salesmen who were involved with the UNIVAC, as well as representatives from users such as General Electric, Arthur Andersen, and the U.S. Census.
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