Joseph H. Wegstein
Chairman of the Short Range Committee of CODASYL that developed the programming language Cobol, and a longtime supporter of information processing standards; member of the joint ACM/GAMM committee that developed Algol.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biographical
Sammet, Jean E., "The Early History of Cobol," in Wexelblat, Richard L., ed., History of Programming Languages, Academic Press, New York, 198 1.
Significant Publications
Wegstein, Joseph H., and Samuel N. Alexander, "Programming Scientific Calculators," Control Engineering, Vol. 3, May 1956, pp. 89-92.
UPDATES
Joseph Wegstein died August 16, 1985. (THVV, 2023)
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