Jean E. Sammet papers, ca. 1955-1989.

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Jean E. Sammet papers, ca. 1955-1989.

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Correspondence, memoranda, technical reports, subject files, manuals, and other records relating to Sammet's work in the computer industry, her work with computer professional groups, and the Ada programming language. Records from her employment with IBM and Sylvania include a set of day files and subject files from the 1960s through the 1980s. Records associated with computer professional groups include correspondence files from her terms as an officer of ACM and other committees such as: the ACM.

150 cubic ft.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Sammet, Jean E., 1928-

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Sammet was a leading figure in the development of computer programming languages. She began her career at Sperry Gyroscope Company (1955-1958) and moved to Sylvania Electric Products in 1958 where she participated in programming development for the MOBIDIC Computer. In 1961 she joined IBM Corporation to manage their Boston Programming Center. There she conducted advanced development work in programming and produced the first Formula Manipulation Compiler. Between 1968 and 1978 Samme...

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International Business Machines Corporation. Federal Systems Division

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International Business Machines Corporation. Boston Programming Center.

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ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia

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The Association for Computing Machinery was founded in 1947 and has grown to become the oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society. It maintains the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves a membership in more than one hundred countries with publications, conferences and career resources. The Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the ACM are technical communities representing virtually every major area of computing. There are also hundreds of professional and studen...

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