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'''Marlene Hazle''' (8 May 1934 - 7 June 2011) was an American computer scientist known for her work at [[RAND Corporation]] and [[Mitre Corporation]] for development of the [[Semi-Automatic Ground Environment]].
'''Marlene Hazle''' (8 May 1934 - 7 June 2011) was an American computer scientist known for her work in computer science throughout the 20th century. She worked at [[RAND Corporation]] and [[Mitre Corporation]] for development of the [[Semi-Automatic Ground Environment]] and AESOP respectively.
== Biography ==
== Biography ==



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Marlene Hazle
Born8 May 1934
Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Died7 June 2011
Employer(s)RAND Corp. and MITRE
Known forComputer Science, Aerospace

Marlene Hazle (8 May 1934 - 7 June 2011) was an American computer scientist known for her work in computer science throughout the 20th century. She worked at RAND Corporation and Mitre Corporation for development of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment and AESOP respectively.

Biography

Early Life

Marlene Hazle was born in 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a mechanical engineer.[1]

Education

Hazle graduated from Devilbiss High School in Toledo, Ohio in 1950[2]. Hazle then went on to attend Cornell University. Hazle was a part of the Delta Gamma Sorority, Phi Beta Kappa, and became Chairman of Cornell's Mortar Board chapter[3]. At Cornell, Hazle took a class on numerical analysis where her professor offered to show the students how to use a computer to complete their homework. Hazle, along with other students, accepted this offer and began learning about computers. In 1956, Hazle graduated from Cornell with a degree in government.[4]

Death

Marlene died at the age of 77 on 7 June 2011 in Lexington, Massachusetts.[5]

Work

After graduation, Hazle began work at RAND Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time RAND was preparing people to work at SAGE centers[6]. Hazle was trained at RAND on SAGE computers and eventually went on to teach the class on the operating system of SAGE computers[7]. After her work at SAGE Hazle began working at MITRE where she was one of the first people to work on the AESOP one of the world's first on line computer systems.[8]

Contributions

  1. ^ Abbot, Jane (11 February 2001). "Oral-History:Marlene Hazle". ethw.org. Retrieved 11 July 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ Secret Societies of Cornell University (1956). The Cornellian. Vol. 88. Ithaca, New York: Secret Societies of Cornell University. p. 357.
  3. ^ Delta Gamma Sorority (1956). Anchora of Delta Gamma. Vol. 73. Delta Gamma Sorority. p. 47.
  4. ^ Abbot, Jane (11 February 2001). "Oral-History:Marlene Hazle". ethw.org. Retrieved 11 July 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "Marlene Hazle Obituary - Lexington, Massachusetts - Tributes.com". www.tributes.com. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  6. ^ Abbot, Jane (11 February 2001). "Oral-History:Marlene Hazle". ethw.org. Retrieved 11 July 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  7. ^ Abbot, Jane (11 February 2001). "Oral-History:Judy Clapp". ethw.org. Retrieved 11 July 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ MITRE Corporation (1979). MITRE, the First Twenty Years: A History of the MITRE Corporation, 1958-1978. Bedfor, Massachusets: MITRE Corporation. p. 80.
  9. ^ United States Defense Technical Information Center (1990). Proceeding of the Eighth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology, 5-8 Mar 1990. pp. 321–337.
  10. ^ James, D. L. (1978). Software Design Methodologies and Air Force Software Acquisition Environment. Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts: Rome Air Development Center. p. 2.
  11. ^ IEEE (1980). Proceedings of the IEEE 1980 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, NAECON 1980. IEEE. p. 435.