Margaret R. Fox
Career and Achievement in Information Technology
Harouna Lam
ITEC 495
Assignment 1-4-2
Tables of contents of the
presentation
Margaret R. Fox
 Career and achievement
 Background
 Education
 Contributions
 Gestalt
 Future of Information Technology
Background of Magaret R. Fox
 Born in 1916
 Nationality – American citizen
 Involved in producing and reviewing
bibliographies
 Joined army Naval Reserve in 1943.
Education
 Study Physic and Math.
 Graduated with a bachelor in English.
 At Wisconsin College State in 1940.
 Worked as electronic engineer in radar in
Naval Reserve.
Contributions
 Produced reviews and bibliographies.
 Joined Association for Computing Machinery
 She founded American Federation for
Information Processing Societies.
Contribution (Continued)
 Joined National Institute of Standards and
Technology.
 She helped the nation technological progress.
 Keep track of much of the paperwork for
that first big computer project.
 Acting as chief Office of Computer
Information in the National Bureau of
Standards Institute for Computer Science and
Technology.(NBSICST).
Margaret R. Fox and Gestalt
 She contributed “gestalt” in nature by:
 She was able to inform people about
UNIVAC.
 She documented and recording biggest
moment in computing history.
 Handled much of the contract from the
Bureau of Census for the first UNIVAC
computer with Eckert-Mauchly Computer.
Prediction
Without Margaret R. Fox contribution, no one
would known about UNIVAC.
She kept documentation and records of the
most historic moments in computing.
She produced reviews and bibliographies.
She helped to document many major industry
accomplishment.
Summary
Margaret R. Fox was born in 1916.
Graduated in 1940 in Wisconsin College State.
She work as electronic engineer in radar as
naval reserved .
She joined ACM and founded American Federation for
Information Processing Societies.
Her biggest accomplishment to document and record
history of the biggest movements in computing history.
References:
Magaret R.F.(2010).SmartComputing. Retrieved on Saturday May
15, 2010, from website
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&s
earchtype=1&DicID=18118&RefType=Encyclopedia
Fisher, Walter C. to Fox, Margaret R.(2002, May). SmartComputing.
Retrieved on Saturday May 15,2010,from website
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/arc
hive/r0605/28r05/28r05.asp&guid=
Pioneering women in computing Technology(2010).Retrieved on
Saturday May 15, 2010, from website
http://women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/Resources/Women/