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Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (Evelyn Marie Keller) was a computer scientist who created the computer language BASIC.[1]She was also the first female to get a Ph.D. in computer science.[2][1] Her work focused on making algorithms that performed analytic differential on algebraic equations.[2]
Evelyn Marie Kenneth was born on December 13, 1913.[3]She was born in Cleveland, Ohio.[3] She lived most of her life in Chicago, Michigan, before she went into computer science.[3]
She joined the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary congregation and was assigned 29 years of teaching elementary school and high school.[3] She went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and became the first woman to have a Ph.D. in computer science halfway through this period.[2][1] She resumed teaching and took side classes all the while, earning her a B.A. in Mathematical Sciences, a M.S. in mathematics, and a minor in Latin. [3]
One of her schools was Dartmouth University.[3] She became the first female staff member in their previously male-only computer science center and led it for 20 years.[3] She also taught at Clarke University and established a master’s degree program for computer science there.[3] Another one of her achievements was creating the computer language BASIC.[1] She also created the thesis “Inductive Inference on Computer-Generated Patterns”.[3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Sister Mary Kenneth Keller - Computing History". www.computinghistory.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lovos, Milagros (2023-08-25). "About Mary Kenneth Keller". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2024-02-09.