Jean E. Sammet
American computer scientist
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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. Wikipedia
Born: March 23, 1928, New York, NY
Died: May 20, 2017 (age 89 years), Burtonsville, MD
Education: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1949), Mount Holyoke College (1948), and Columbia University
Awards: Ada Lovelace Award (1989); Computer Pioneer Award(2009); NCWIT Pioneer Award (2013)