<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/9/2007 5:12:52 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, aek@bitsavers.org writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>H.M. Gladney wrote:<BR>> Jean Sammett seems to have made a hobby of the history of programming <BR>> languages<BR><BR>She wrote one of the first books on the history of programming languages<BR><BR>"Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals", 1969<BR><BR>The front piece is the classic "tower of babel" language drawing.<BR><BR>She was also one of the main drivers behind the first HOPL<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>She was also on the Board of Trustees of the Computer Museum in Boston (our antecedent) for many years and curated an exhibit on the History of Programming Languages at the Museum in the mid '80's.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>gardner</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>