lois haibt lois mitchell haibt born 1934 is an american computer scientist best known for being a member of the tenperson team at ibm that developed fortran the first successful highlevel programming language she is known as an early pioneer in computer science education and career haibt studied mathematics at vassar college with an academic scholarship she graduated with a bachelors degree in 1955 while at vassar haibt worked at bell laboratories during the summer immediately after graduating from vassar haibt began working at ibm according to haibt the team worked well together no one was worried about seeming stupid or possessive of his or her code we were all just learning together in 1957 haibt attended columbia university haibt is a member of the mathematical association of america research contributions the ibm team spent almost three years creating the programming language fortran which reformed the way people communicate instructions to computers haibt was in charge of section four of the fortran project haibt was also part of an elevenperson team to develop and release the first reference manual for fortran in 1956 personal life lois haibt was married to luther haibt may 4 1929 december 3 2000 a systems analyst at ibm in thornwood ny works original paper on fortran from 1957 casting petri nets into programs september 1983 list of prominent pioneers in computer science lois haibt an interview conducted by janet abbate for the ieee history center 2 august 2001 ghn ieee global history network retrieved 20131129 group photo at 1982 pioneer day banquet computer history museum retrieved 20131129 vtetimelines of computingcomputing before 1950 19501979 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s softwareopensource software 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s programming languages hypertext technology operating systems dos family windows linux virtualization development malware computer science artificial intelligence quantum computing internet web browsers internet conflicts men in computing charles babbage john backus george boole vint cerf john cocke stephen cook j presper eckert david a huffman bob kahn brian kernighan andrew koenig donald knuth joseph kruskal douglas mcilroy john von neumann dennis ritchie guido van rossum bjarne stroustrup ken thompson linus torvalds alan turing paul vixie larry wall stephen wolfram steve wozniak women in computing kathleen antonelli jean bartik adele goldstine lois haibt betty holberton ada lovelace margaret hamilton grace hopper nancy leveson marlyn meltzer klara dan von neumann frances spence ruth teitelbaum vtesoftware engineeringfields computer programming requirements engineering software deployment software design software maintenance software testing systems analysis formal methods concepts data modeling enterprise architecture functional specification modeling language orthogonality programming paradigm software software archaeology software architecture software configuration management software development methodology software development process software quality software quality assurance software verification and validation structured analysis orientations agile aspectoriented object orientation ontology service orientation sdlc modelsdevelopmental agile eup executable uml incremental model iterative model prototype model rad up scrum spiral model vmodel waterfall model xp other spice cmmi data model er model function model information model metamodeling object model systems model view model languages idef uml usl sysml softwareengineers victor basili kent beck grady booch fred brooks barry boehm peter chen danese cooper ward cunningham tom demarco edsger w dijkstra delores m etter martin fowler adele goldstine margaret hamilton c a r hoare lois haibt mary jean harrold grace hopper watts humphrey michael a jackson ivar jacobson alan kay nancy leveson stephen j mellor bertrand meyer david parnas trygve reenskaug winston w royce james rumbaugh mary shaw peri tarr elaine weyuker niklaus wirth edward yourdon related fields computer science computer engineering project management risk management systems engineering category commons authority control dblp 543774 