Evelyn Berezin

Evelyn Berezin (born April 12, 1925 in New York City - † December 8, 2018 ) was an American physicist , computer scientist and entrepreneur .

Berezin studied physics at New York University with a bachelor's degree in 1945 and received a scholarship from the Atomic Energy Commission in 1946 . In 1951 she started working as a logic designer for the computer start-up company Elecom in Brooklyn . She then worked on the design of specialty computers for a number of companies, including Teleregister in Connecticut on a data processing system for United Airlines reservations , which went into operation in 1962. The system was in operation for eleven years and consisted of three central processors that operated switches in around 60 cities with a response time of one second.

In 1969 she founded the first word processing company , Redactron Corporation. The first Word Processor was delivered in 1971 (at that time not a pure software product, but with specially developed hardware). It was the first computerized word processing system. The company grew from an initial nine employees to 500 employees until it was sold to the Burroughs Corporation in 1976.

From 1988, Berezin worked in management consulting and venture capital as President of the Greenhouse Management Company. She was on several boards of directors and a consultant to Brookhaven Science Associates (operator of the Brookhaven National Laboratory ). She received honorary doctorates from Adelphi University and Eastern Michigan University .

She was the only senior manager at a technology company on a list of the US Top 100 Business Women.

In 2015 she became a Fellow of the Computer History Museum . She received the Long Island Distinguished Leadership Award.

Web links

• WITI Hall of Fame
• Computer History Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert D. McFadden: Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor . In: The New York Times . December 10, 2018.