Dana Ulery

Name: Dana Ulery

Born: 1938

Computer-related contributions

• Renowned American computer scientist.
• Pioneer in scientific computing applications.
• First woman engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Significant publications

• Computer science's reincarnation of finite differences (1976).
• Lineal a language-oriented system for solving problems in linear algebra (1972).

Honors and awards

• Awarded the Army Knowledge Award for Best Transformation Initiative (2002).
• Appointed Chair of the US Army Materiel Command Knowledge Management Council.
• Listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who of American Women.
• Awarded the DuPont Engineering Award for Leadership of Corporate Quality Computer Systems.