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Jean E. Sammet

Computer Science

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#168

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#96

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Jean E. Sammet

Mathematics

#1001

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#1724

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#434

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Measure Theory

#2828

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#3366

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#818

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Jean E. Sammet's Degrees

Bachelors Mathematics Mount Holyoke College
PhD Mathematics University of Maryland, College Park

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According to Wikipedia, Jean E. Sammet was an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962. She was also one of the developers of the influential COBOL programming language. She received her B.A. in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and her M.A. in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949. She received an honorary D.Sc. from Mount Holyoke College in 1978.

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Jean E. Sammet's Published Works

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Software psychology: human factors in computer and information systems (1983) (343)
Programming languages - history and fundamentals (1969) (246)
An information algebra: phase 1 report—language structure group of the CODASYL development committee (1962) (91)
Programming languages: history and future (1972) (88)
The use of English as a programming language (1966) (70)
The early history of COBOL (1978) (56)
An overview of nonprocedural languages (1974) (53)
The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages (1993) (38)
Introduction to FORMAC (1964) (35)
FORMAC an experimental formula manipulation Compiler (1964) (32)
The new (1982) Computing Reviews classification system—final version (1982) (28)
Survey of formula manipulation (1966) (26)
Roster of programming languages for 1976-77 (1974) (24)
Some Approaches to, and Illustrations of, Programming Language History (1991) (20)
Basic elements of COBOL 61 (1962) (18)
Why Ada is not just another programming language (1983) (17)
Farewell to Grace Hopper—end of an era! (1992) (16)
History of IBM's Technical Contributions to High Level Programming Languages (1981) (16)
Problems in, and a pragmatic approach to, programming language measurement (1971) (16)
An overview of programming languages for specialized application areas (1972) (14)
Brief survey of languages used for systems implementation (1971) (13)
Formula Manipulation by Computer (1967) (12)
PDL/Ada: a design language based on Ada (1982) (9)
PDL/Ada—a design language based on Ada (1981) (9)
Toward better documentation of programming languages (1963) (8)
Summary of Changes in COBOL, 1960-1985 (1985) (7)
Roster of programming languages for 1973 (1974) (6)
Brief Summary of the Early History of COBOL (1985) (6)
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation: March 29-21, 1966 Washington, D. C. (1966) (5)
Detailed Description of COBOL (1961) (5)
Application of extensible languages to specialized application languages (1971) (5)
A method of combining ALGOL and COBOL (1961) (5)
In recognition of the 25th anniversary of Computing Reviews: selected reviews 1960–1984 (1985) (4)
Progress report on the ACM Guide to Computing Literature (1984) (4)
A definition of the cobol procedure division using algol metalinguistics (1961) (3)
Perspective on Methods of Improving Software Development (1970) (3)
An Overview of High-Level Languages (1981) (3)
The beginning and development of FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler) (1993) (3)
The Real Creators of Cobol (2000) (3)
ACM president's letter: relation of ACM activities to finances (1975) (3)
ACM president's letter: on the importance of ACM being scientific and educational (1976) (3)
From HOPL to HOPL-II (1978--1993): 15 years of programming language development (1996) (2)
ACM President's letter: chapters and SIG/SICs (1976) (2)
Challenge to Artificial Intelligence: Programming Problems to be Solved (1971) (2)
Description of course given on “Computers in the Humanities and Social Science” (1975) (2)
Proceedings of the second ACM symposium on Symbolic and algebraic manipulation, SYMSAC 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA, March 23-25, 1971 (1971) (2)
ACM president's letter: what should be done next? (1976) (2)
ACM president's letter (1975) (2)
Note on two papers (1962) (1)
Software history (2003) (1)
ACM President's letter (1976) (1)
Self-Study Questions & Answers (1988) (1)
Transcript of question and answer session (1978) (1)
ACM president's letter: education, certification, and the CDP exam (1974) (1)
Recommended future directions for ACM (1974) (1)
General Views on COBOL (1961) (1)
An effective history conference (1996) (1)
History of Programming Languages Conference: HOPL-III June 10, 2007 Introduction (2007) (1)
Self-Study Questions (1988) (1)
Opening Session (1978) (1)
More on CR 8570 (1966) (0)
Organization of the Conference (1981) (0)
Jean Sammet means business (1974) (0)
The State of Programming Languages (1978) (0)
Description of course given on "Computers in the Humanities and Social Science" (1975) (0)
Jean E. Sammet interview: March 28, April 4, April 11 and April 18, 2006 (2006) (0)
ACM'75: Researcher/user dialogue on file design (1975) (0)
ACM President's Letter (1974) (0)
Proposed technological updating course for programmers (1971) (0)
ACM president's letter: the great diversity within ACM (1975) (0)
A letter from the ACM vice-president: two messages (1973) (0)
ACM President's Letter: time to vote (1976) (0)
Measures of technical competence (Keynote Address) (1975) (0)
Discussion—the pros and cons of a special IR language: comments (1962) (0)
President's letter: On the LRPC report (1975) (0)
Nonprocedural languages (2003) (0)
ACM President's letter: relation of ACM to the world outside ACM (1976) (0)
ACM president's letter: ACM diversity in (a) technical interests and (b) national and international interests (1975) (0)
The Ada Programming Language (2015) (0)
Notes on what language maturity means, and how to measure it (1988) (0)
Jean Sammet means Business (Interview with Jean Sammet). (1974) (0)
HOPL: History of Programming Languages Conference (1979) (0)
Letter from the past President (1976) (0)
ACM president's letter: researchers, practitioners, and students (1975) (0)
Problem-oriented languages (2003) (0)
ACM president's letter: guidelines for deeply political/social issues (1975) (0)
Conference chairman's opening remarks (1978) (0)
Transcript of presentation (1978) (0)
Full text of all questions submitted (1978) (0)
Panel session: comparative application of computer languages to practical problems (1986) (0)
Introduction of Captain Grace Murray Hopper (1978) (0)
Anecdotes (2000) (0)
A letter from the ACM vice-president: concerns of our members —a report from an ACM forum (1972) (0)
Session details: The opening session (1978) (0)
President's letter (1974) (0)
ACM president's letter: president's one year progress report (1975) (0)
ACM president's letter: outlook for the next two years (1974) (0)
Programming language standards (2003) (0)
Symbolic Computation: The Early Days (1950–1971) (2020) (0)
ACM president's letter: about the refereeing process (1975) (0)
R65-23 Aspects of Language Design for Combinatorial Computing (1965) (0)
ACM president's letter: ACM publications (1975) (0)
V – COBOL Session (1981) (0)

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