Biography:Charlotte Davis Mooers
Charlotte Davis Mooers | |
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 Portrait by Fremont Davis.[1] | |
| Born | Charlotte Davis Washington, DC |
| Died | March 17, 2005 (aged 80) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Burial place | Hillside Cemetery, Hancock, NH |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Spouse(s) | Calvin Northrup Mooers |
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Charlotte Davis Mooers (25 March 1924 – 17 March 2005)[2] was an American computer scientist whose research on programming languages began during World War II and continued through the early-1990s.[1]
Family
Born in Washington, DC on 25 March 1924,[2] Charlotte was the daughter of Watson Davis, director of the Washington-based news organization Science Service, and Helen Miles Davis, editor of Chemistry magazine.[3]
In a letter to her husband on 2 September 1945, Helen Davis wrote that Charlotte and Calvin Mooers were discussing marriage,[3] and the two eventually wed.[4]
Career
During World War II, Davis worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.[3] In 1945, she was transferred to a facility in Newport, Rhode Island, but returned to the facility near Washington by early September that year.[3] She was part of the Acoustic Division and, at one point, was under the supervision of John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor.[4]
In 1947, she and her husband Calvin Mooers coauthored an electronics book for the general public, Electronics: What Everyone Should Know.[5] In 1949, the two invented a card selecting device for use with the punched cards that were used for information retrieval using zatocoding; they were granted a patent in 1954.[6]
In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked on the HERMES Message System at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.[7][8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Charlotte Davis (1924-2005)". https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_306378.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Charlotte Davis Mooers (1924-2005)". https://new.findagrave.com/memorial/176605222.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski (6 August 2015). "Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945". https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/science-service-close-covering-atom-august-1945.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mooers, Calvin N.; Mooers, Charlotte D. (22 June 1993). "Oral history interview with Calvin N. Mooers and Charlotte D. Mooers" (Interview). Interviewed by Corbitt, Kevin D. Minneapolis, MN: Charles Babbage Institute. pp. 7, 11. hdl:11299/107510. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ↑ Mooers, Calvin N.; Mooers, Charlotte Davis (1947). Electronics: What Everyone Should Know. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co.. OCLC 301377993. https://archive.org/details/electronicswhate00mooerich.
- ↑ & Mooers, Charlotte Davis"Card selecting device" A US patent 2665694 A, issued 12 January 1954
- ↑ Rude, Richard V.; Mooers, Charlotte D.; Melone, Deborah L. (1978). The HERMES message system: integrated communications management. Cambridge, MA: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.. OCLC 9361803.
- ↑ Mooers, Charlotte D. (1983). "Changes that users demanded in the human interface to the Hermes Message System". CHI '83, Boston, Massachusetts, USA — December 12–15, 1983. New York: ACM. pp. 88–92. doi:10.1145/800045.801587. ISBN 0-89791-121-0.
External list
Oral history interview with Calvin N. Mooers and Charlotte D. Mooers
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