Lois B Mitchell Haibt was born on 1934 and is an American computer scientist best known for being a member of the ten-person team at IBM that developed FORTRAN, the first successful high-level programming language.
13 Facts About Lois Haibt
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Lois Haibt is known as an early pioneer in computer science.
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Immediately after graduating from Vassar, Lois Haibt began working at IBM.
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Lois Haibt started with an annual salary of $5,100, despite her lack of prior programming experience.
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Lois Haibt inferred that any job with such a high salary would be difficult, but fascinating.
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Lois Haibt was part of an academically diverse team of ten young people with varying academic degrees and unrelated areas of expertise, such as crystallography and cryptography.
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Lois Haibt is a member of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Lois Haibt was in charge of section four of the FORTRAN project.
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Lois Haibt analyzed the flow of programs produced by other sections of the compiler.
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Lois Haibt's estimates of flow in high-traffic areas of the computer were obtained by calculating how often basic blocks of the program would execute.
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Lois Haibt employed Monte Carlo methods for these calculations.
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Lois Haibt was part of an eleven-person team to develop and release the first reference manual for FORTRAN in 1956.
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Lois Haibt was married to Luther Lois Haibt, a systems analyst at IBM in Thornwood, NY.