Oral history interview with Jane Hauser Pejsa

Pejsa, Jane Hauser
2016-01-28
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Oral history interview with Jane Hauser Pejsa

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2016-01-28

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Charles Babbage Institute

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Jane Hauser Pejsa grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from Carleton College in 1951 with a degree in mathematics, then took an engineering position with Northwestern Bell Telephone in downtown Minneapolis. Her supportive math professor, Kenneth O. May, helped her land a position with Remington Rand Univac at the original Engineering Research Associates factory in St. Paul. At Univac she worked with Earl Joseph, then later worked in General Mills’ government computing division with Francis Alterman, founder of the short-lived Advanced Scientific Instruments. After briefly working for a book publisher, she took a position as a FORTRAN specialist with Honeywell Systems and Research developing computing and guidance systems for the Space Shuttle. She offers numerous character sketches and anecdotes, which she has written down in an essay entitled Memoir of a Fortran Queen (2016). This material is based on work funded by the

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”

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Jane Hauser Pejsa, OH 514. Oral history interview by Thomas J. Misa, 28 January & 9 February 2016. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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Pejsa, Jane Hauser. (2016). Oral history interview with Jane Hauser Pejsa. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/188568.

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