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Sammet, Jean E., 1928-2017

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Personal name headingSammet, Jean E., 1928-2017
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LocatedSilver Spring (Md.)
Birth date1928-03-23
Death date2017-05-20
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathMaryland
Field of activityComputer programming Programming languages (Electronic computers) COBOL (Computer program language)
Profession or occupationComputer programmers
Found inLC data base, 6-10-88 (hdg.: Sammet, Jean E., 1928- ; usage: Jean E. Sammet)
New York times WWW site, viewed June 5, 2017 (in obituary published June 4: Jean E. Sammet; b. Mar. 23, 1928, New York City; d. May 20, Maryland, aged 89; lived in a retirement community in Silver Spring and died at a nearby hospital after a brief illness; early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream)
Associated languageeng