Dana Ulery

Dana L. Ulery, 2008

Dana Lynn Ulery (born January 2, 1938 in East St. Louis , Illinois ) is an American computer scientist and a pioneer in simulation science .

Career

Ulery was the daughter of businesswoman Meriam Mueller. Her father, Harry Tanzer passed away when she was 2 years old. She began in 1961 as the first female engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California . She designed and developed algorithms to model the potential of the NASA Deep Space Network and automatic real-time tracking systems for the Ranger and Mariner space mission programs used by North American Aviation : Recomp II, 40-bit computer. Throughout her career, she has worked as a researcher and manager in applied science and technology in industry, academia and government. In 2007, she retired from her position as senior scientist in the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate at the United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL) .

Ulery was one of the first group of female executives at the US Army Research Laboratory . In those positions, she also became Chair of the US Army Materiel Command on the Science Council, and in 2002 received the Army Knowledge Award for Best Transformation Initiative . She is listed in the American Men and Women of Science as well as Who's Who of American Women , Who's Who in the East , Who's Who in the World , and Who's Who in America . She was named a Lifetime Achiever in 2017 by the Marquis Who's Who .

Ulery received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Grinnell College in 1959 in two majors: English Literature and Mathematics. She earned her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Delaware in 1972 and 1975. In 1976 she took on guest residencies at the University of Cairo in Egypt and the American University in Cairo . After returning to the US, she joined DuPont's Engineering Services Division , where she worked as a computer scientist and technical manager. In the early 1980s, Ulery led initiatives to develop and implement business application systems for assessing and controlling product quality at DuPont. For these achievements, she received the DuPont Engineering Award for leadership of Corporate Quality Computer Systems . Ulery also played an active role in setting EDI standards , the international standard for the exchange of electronic technical information used by businesses and the US government. She initiated and directed multidisciplinary programs at the ARL to advance research into multi-source information integration and situational awareness applied to non-traditional combat environments and home defense.

In the 1990s, Ulery was the Pan-American delegate for United Nations Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Trade (UN / EDIFACT) for a long time . She was Chair of the UN / EDIFACT Multimedia Objects Working Group and Chair of the UN / EDIFACT Product Data Working Group , which led the early international development of standards for electronic commerce .

Fonts

• Ruler. A language-oriented system for solving problems in linear algebra . University of Delaware, Newark, Del. 1972, OCLC 3716008 (dissertation).
• Computer science's reincarnation of finite differences . University of Delaware, Newark, Del. 1976, OCLC 1977813 (dissertation).

literature

• Ulery, Dana Lynn: computer science. In: American men & women of science, 1998–99. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences . tape 7 : T-Z . New Providence, NJ, Bowker 1998, OCLC 664555841 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dana Ulery in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irina Nikivincze: Dana Ulery: Pioneer of Statistical Computing and Architect of Large, Complex Systems . In: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing . tape 39 , no. 2 , 2017, ISSN  1934-1547 , p. 91–95 , doi : 10.1353 / ahc.2017.0017 ( computer.org [PDF] here pp. 51–55).
2. ^ SL Kresser, RJ Sippel: Publications of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory July 1961 through June 1962 . (PDF) In: Jet Propulsion Laboratory . No. Bibliography No. 39-3, Pasadena, California, October 15, 1962, p. 47. Retrieved October 16, 2013. “U01 Evaluation of Goldstone Polar-Mount Antenna Systematic Errors from Star Tracks, Ulery, D., Fearey, J., Technical Memorandum 33-45, May 5, 1961 (Unclassified) "
3. ↑ Autonetics Industrial Products: RECOMP II Operating Manual (PDF), Autonetics, Data Systems Division, Anaheim, California 1963.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dana Lynn Ulery . In: American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences . 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
5. ^ ^{A b} Dana L. Ulery: Building Knowledge Ecosystems for Enabling Army Transformation . (PDF) In: Army AL&T . January – February 2002, pp. 6-7. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
6. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science. Thomson Gale 2004.
7. ^ Donald W. Marquardt, Dana L. Ulery: Product quality management . EI du Pont de Nemours, Quality Management & Technology Center, Wilmington, Del. 1991, OCLC 29224881 .
8. ↑ US Army Research Laboratory: ARL / ARO Core Broad Agency Announcement for Basic and Applied Scientific Research for Fiscal Years 2007 through 2011 (PDF), US Army RDECOM Acquisition Center, RTP Contracting Division, Research Triangle Park, NC October 2006 (accessed October 13, 2006) . October 2013).