At Watson, my office was on the same floor as
Fran's, and we talked a few times. She had
a heck of a nice smile. She played a role in
a math subroutine library that could take
special advantage of several processors, and
I asked her about some of that. I mentioned
that it was easy enough just to start some
tasks. She explained, as I recall, how her work also did
careful things about data alignment in interleaved
memory or some such, etc.! That was really getting into the
details!
She was one of the very few women I ever saw in
a STEM subject and good at it.
Her husband was Jack Schwartz of the fundamental
'Linear Operators' with Nelson Dunford, as I
recall, at Yale. Schwartz was long at Courant
and did a programming language SETL, 'set language',
for allowing programming via essentially set
theory notation.
She was one of the very few women I ever saw in a STEM subject and good at it.
Her husband was Jack Schwartz of the fundamental 'Linear Operators' with Nelson Dunford, as I recall, at Yale. Schwartz was long at Courant and did a programming language SETL, 'set language', for allowing programming via essentially set theory notation.