| Charlotte Davis Mooers | |
| Birth Name: | Charlotte Davis |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Washington, DC |
| Death Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Burial Place: | Hillside Cemetery, Hancock, NH |
| Occupation: | Computer scientist |
| Spouse: | Calvin Northrup Mooers |
| Father: | Watson Davis |
| Mother: | Helen Miles Davis |
Charlotte Davis Mooers (25 March 1924 – 17 March 2005)[1] was an American computer scientist whose research on programming languages began during World War II and continued through the early-1990s.
Born in Washington, DC on 25 March 1924,[1] Charlotte was the daughter of Watson Davis, director of the Washington-based news organization Science Service, and Helen Miles Davis, editor of Chemistry magazine.[2]
In a letter to her husband on 2 September 1945, Helen Davis wrote that Charlotte and Calvin Mooers were discussing marriage,[2] and the two eventually wed.
During World War II, Davis worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.[2] In 1945, she was transferred to a facility in Newport, Rhode Island, but returned to the facility near Washington by early September that year.[2] She was part of the Acoustic Division and, at one point, was under the supervision of John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor.[3]
In 1947, she and her husband Calvin Mooers coauthored an electronics book for the general public, Electronics: What Everyone Should Know.[4] In 1949, the two invented a card selecting device for use with the punched cards that were used for information retrieval using zatocoding; they were granted a patent in 1954.[5]
In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked on the HERMES Message System at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.[6] [7]
Oral history interview with Calvin N. Mooers and Charlotte D. Mooers