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  Erna Hoover Biography | World of Computer Science
Born June 19, 1926, in Irvington, New Jersey, Erna Schneider and her younger siblings, a brother who died from polio at age five, and a sister, were raised by their dentist father and former teacher mother in South Orange, where Hoover attended public school.
Hoover went on to teach philosophy and logic at Swarthmore College until 1954, when she joined Bell Laboratories as a senior technical associate.
The application was made in 1967, while Hoover was on maternity leave, and the patent lawyers had to bring the papers to her home for a signature.
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Hoover Dam () is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and Nevada.
To date, Hoover is the longest-serving leader of an executive branch agency in the United States, having served under a record eight presidents, from Coolidge to Richard Nixon; indeed, it is because of Hoover that, since his tenure, FBI Directors have been limited to ten-year terms.
Hoover is credited with creating an effective law enforcement organization, but has frequently been accused of flagrantly abusing his authority in flmailing notable public figures and engaging in unwarranted political persecution.
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 Inventor of the Week: Archive
Hoover was in the hospital after giving birth to one of her three daughters when she drew up the first sketches of her system.
Hoover's solution was to use a computer to monitor the frequency of incoming calls at different times, and to adjust the call acceptance rate accordingly.
In addition to patent #3,623,007 (Nov. 23, 1971), Hoover's system earned her a position as the first female supervisor of a technical department at Bell Labs.
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 Erna Schneider Hoover (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Erna Schneider Hoover (1926-) invented a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at Bell Laboratories.
This method gave priority to processes that were concerned with in the input and output of the switch over processes that were less important such as record keeping and billing.
Hoover received her B.A. in medieval history from Wellesley College, and Ph.D. in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics from Yale University.
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 Technology Review: Software Switch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Erna Hoover unjammed the telephone switchboard-from her bed in the maternity ward.
Hoover was not a typical team member: not only was she female, but she came to Bell Labs with a degree in medieval history from Wellesley College and a doctorate in logic and philosophy of science from Yale.
Then, while in the hospital after giving birth to the second of her three daughters, Hoover sketched out the first plans for a program to monitor the frequency of incoming calls and automatically adjust the acceptance rate, eliminating the danger of system overloads.
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 Your WHO Invented The Hoover Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Hoover Dam was to be built directly in the path of the Colorado River.
Hoover invented a game that became known as "Hooverball" as a form of daily exercise to keep his weight down.
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 Erna Schneider Hoover
Hoover's used a computer to monitor the frequency of incoming calls at different times, and to adjust the call acceptance rate accordingly.
Using a simple idea, she was able to eliminate the danger of overload in processing calls.
Hoover's system earned her a position as the first female supervisor of a technical department at Bell Labs.
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Erna Schneider Hoover, inventor of the computerized telephone switching system.
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 Hoover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hoover Company, currently a division of Whirlpool and being sold to Techtronic Industries.
Hoover Industries, A designer and manufacturer of interior and safety products for the airline industry(eg.
Hoover sound, a heavy bass driven drone sound produced by a Roland Corporation Alpha-Juno 2 and used extensively in electronic music and rave music
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 Hoover - Toseeka Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
My hoover stretches from the bar to the retaurant (small pub) but there were no cutomers in, as the bar had not opened.
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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator.
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Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for many years
Hoover's, Inc., a business information company that is owned by Dun & Bradstreet
Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank at Stanford University
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 hoover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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CLEVELAND (AP) - Any hope Hoover Co. workers had of acquiring the company through an employee stock ownership plan ended Thursday when parent company Whirlpool Corp. sold Hoover to a Hong Kong-based home improvement supplier.
NORTH CANTON Optimism wasnt flowing after Hoover employees learned the company had been sold to Techtronic Industries, which calls Hong Kong home.
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 The 0ld Boys Club' is Changing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
During her career, Granville developed computer programs that were used for trajectory analysis in the Mercury Project (the first manned mission in space) and in the Apollo Project (which sent U.S. astronauts to the moon).
For this ground-breaking achievement -- the principles of which are still used today -- she was awarded one of the first software patents ever issued.
At Bell Labs, Hoover became the first female supervisor of a technical department.
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 Meet Erna Hoover, telecom trailblazer
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 Bob Hoover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bob is a shortened version of the name Robert.
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Erna Schneider Hoover, inventor of the computerizedtelephone switching system.
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 Multicultural Resource Center: Mothers of Invention
Her discoveries have been used to convert crude oil to gasoline, in water purification and in environmental cleanup.
In 1954, Hoover became a researcher at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where she created a computerized telephone switching system.
The principles of Hoover's system are used by communications companies today.
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One of the first buyers was a cousin, whose husband, William H. Hoover, later became the president of the Hoover Company, with Spangler as superintendent.
Hoover’s improvements resembled a bagpipe attached to a cake box, but they worked.
Sluggish sales were given a kick by Hoover’s 10 day, free home trial, and eventually there was a Hoover® vacuum cleaner in nearly every home.
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 Meet Erna Hoover, telecom trailblazer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) was part of AT&T when Hoover, who held a Yale PhD in philosophy and the foundations of math, started work there as a researcher in 1954.
When Hoover arrived, Bell Labs was dramatically changing the scene in telecom.
It was Hoover who developed the software for a computerized switching system to help eliminate the serious problem of overloading.
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 Bell Labs - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Claude Shannon, working as a research mathematician, published "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948) in the Bell System Technical Journal, which in part built on earlier work in information theory at Bell Labs by Nyquist and Hartley.
Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic while working at Bell Laboratories.
Max Mathews was a very early pioneer in electronic music.
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 Namn på grupprum - Blekinge Tekniska Högskola
Though her life was short (like her father, she died at 36), Ada anticipated by more than a century most of what we think is brand-new computing.
By putting a simple theory into practice through the complexities of computer programming, Hoover eliminated the danger of overload in processing calls.
During World War II, a large number of female mathematicians were employed as "computers" to perform calculations necessary to create firing and bombing tables.
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 Hoover Vacuum Cleaners - Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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In 1927, a long-distance television transmission of images of Herbert Hoover from Washington to New York was successful, and in 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was first measured by John B. Johnson with Harry Nyquist, who provided a theoretical analysis.
During the 1920s, the one-time pad cipher was invented by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne at the labs; Bell's Claude Shannon later proved that it was unbreakable.
In 1971, an improved task priority system for computerized switching systems for telephone traffic was invented by Erna Schneider Hoover, who received one of the first software patents for it.
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 Smart Computing Article - Hollerith, Herman to Hyatt, Gilbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But Erna (Schneider) Hoover was just the kind of achiever to do it.
She drew up the plans for a computerized telephone switching system while recuperating from the delivery.
Hoover's idea was to write software that would monitor the frequency of incoming calls at different times using a computer system.
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 Hoover Quik Broom
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 ZDNet India > News > features > Wired Women
Evelyn Boyd Granville, one of the first African-American women to obtain a PhD in mathematics, she developed the computer projects that were used for trajectory analysis in the Mercury Project (first manned space mission) and the Apollo Project (first mission to the moon).
Erna Schneider Hoover invented a computerised switching system for telephone traffic, to replace the existing hard-wired, mechanical switching equipment.
At Bell Labs, she became the first woman supervisor of a technical department.
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Anthropology: Research Hoover, Anna Marie The Ritual and the Domestic: The Late Postclassic Reoccupation of The Archaeology of Mitchell Caverns.
Bronislaw (Bronislaw Kaspel), Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CaliforniaFurther Reading Payson Sheets' accounts of archaeologist-spies are found in The CIA Anna M
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 Book review: Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Counterexamples to those "unskilled machine-minders" are the only two inventors Brown cites in the area of computer software: Both are women (there are plenty of men in the computer hardware section).
Erna Schneider Hoover is credited with the first computerized telephone switching system, the original electronic switching system (ESS) from Bell Labs, and Grace Murray Hopper is credited with the origination of the term "bug," as well as the construction and promotion of the early high-order language, COBOL.
As I read, I noted the common traits these inventors shared.
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 Bell Labs - ExampleProblems.com
Half of Bell Labs was owned by Western Electric, the other half being owned by ATandT.
1927: Long-distance television transmission, of images of Herbert Hoover, from Washington to New York
1971: A computerized switching system for telephone traffic, invented by Erna Schneider Hoover, receives one of the first software patents
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