Jean Sammet
Name: Jean E. Sammet
Born: 1928 in New York City, New York, USA
Death: May 20, 2017 (Age: 89)
Computer-related contributions
- American female computer software engineer who helped developed the COBOL and FORMAC programming languages.
Significant publications
- Programming languages : history and fundamentals (1969).
- Detailed description of Cobol (1960).
Related computer pioneers
Honors and awards
- Lovelace Award Recipient, Association for Women in Computing (1989).
- Fellow of the ACM (1994).
- SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (1997).
- Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2001).
- Computer Pioneer Award Recipient (IEEE Computer Society) (2009).
