Jean E. Sammet (born
1928) is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC
programming language in 1962.
She received her B.A. in Math from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and
her M.A. in Math from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
1949. She spent 27 years at IBM where she developed FORMAC, the first
widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of
mathematical formulas. She was also a member of the subcommittee which
created COBOL.