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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jean E. Sammet

1928 - 2017

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Jean E. Sammet (March 23, 1928 – May 20, 2017) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean E. Sammet has received more than 115,936 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean E. Sammet is the 155th most popular computer scientist, the 9,292nd most popular biography from United States and the 91st most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jean E. Sammet ranks 155 out of 201. Before her are Silvio Micali, Brewster Kahle, Christos Papadimitriou, Dave Cutler, Grady Booch, and Sudha Murty. After her are Robert Tappan Morris, Andy Hertzfeld, Paul Graham, Peter Shor, Subhash Kak, and Hal Abelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jean E. Sammet ranks 446. Before her are Giovanni Giacomazzi, Juan Rodríguez, Christian Poncelet, Władysław Hasior, Nina Otkalenko, and Douglas Rain. After her are Buddy Van Horn, Kanu Sanyal, Russell Mockridge, Vilayat Khan, Robert Byrne, and René Vautier. Among people deceased in 2017, Jean E. Sammet ranks 454. Before her are Yuriy Poyarkov, Don Williams, Aníbal Ruiz, Fernand Decanali, Paul Falk, and Lisbeth Korsmo. After her are Roger Smith, Norman Johnson, Sofía Ímber, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Nadezhda Olizarenko, and Kurt Marti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jean E. Sammet ranks 9,292 out of 18,182. Before her are Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825), George Bruns (1914), Amanda Schull (1978), Corey Stoll (1976), Nikki Reed (1988), and Anne Gwynne (1918). After her are Eric Mabius (1971), Huell Howser (1945), Harlan F. Stone (1872), David Ramsey (1971), Gordon Bell (1934), and Ann Harding (1902).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jean E. Sammet ranks 91. Before her are Steve Russell (1937), Kent Beck (1961), Bruce Schneier (1963), Brewster Kahle (1960), Dave Cutler (1942), and Grady Booch (1955). After her are Robert Tappan Morris (1965), Andy Hertzfeld (1953), Peter Shor (1959), Paul Buchheit (1977), Ralph Merkle (1952), and E. Allen Emerson (1954).

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