Charlotte Davis Mooers
American computer scientist
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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]
March 25, 1924
Charlotte Davis Mooers | |
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Portrait by Fremont Davis.[1] | |
| Born | Charlotte Davis March 25, 1924 Washington, DC |
| Died | March 17, 2005 (aged 80) |
Burial place | Hillside Cemetery, Hancock, NH |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Spouse | Calvin Northrup Mooers |
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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]