Talk:Evelyn Berezin

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I fixed the references for the patents and changed each reference to the patent number Libelle77 (talk) 01:05, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

I added information about the Sam and Rose Berezin Endowed Scholarship and the Israel Wilenitz Endowment that Evelyn Berezin funds at Stony Brook University from here http://www.givingyourway.org/stonybrook/donor-Wilenitz.html Libelle77 (talk) 15:52, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I added that she got honorary doctorates from Adelphi University and Eastern Michigan University to the awards page from this website http://www.givingyourway.org/stonybrook/donor-Wilenitz.html Libelle77 (talk) 15:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Added list of patents and their references! Elizgee (talk) 15:38, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I added in information about the Berezin-Wilenitz Endowment that she established at Stony Brook University from this website http://www.givingyourway.org/stonybrook/donor-Wilenitz.html Libelle77 (talk) 15:35, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I added awards Owensarahl (talk) 02:17, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

Found info about one of her developments on this website http://fotolibrarian.fotolibra.com/?p=466 Autobot1995 (talk) 16:20, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Autobot1995

I added references to awards Owensarahl (talk) 16:06, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I took out awards in one section because they're in a new topic Owensarahl (talk) 16:06, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I took out several words Owensarahl (talk) 16:05, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I added boards she served on Owensarahl (talk) 16:04, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I added honorary doctorates Owensarahl (talk) 16:03, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Listed her religion and referenced the link at the bottom. Elizgee (talk) 16:02, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I removed some of the dead links from the article and added some links to other wikipedia articles Libelle77 (talk) 16:01, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I took out several words Owensarahl (talk) 15:37, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I added an awards section Owensarahl (talk) 15:36, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I found information about her education from this site http://books.google.com/books?id=gPGZJ_YuMwgC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=evelyn+berezin&source=bl&ots=9gwlKbyTtO&sig=YzDc_LI2NJo4ML3O262hFvuScTs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gkhRU9qiO8-iyATamoGgCA&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=evelyn%20berezin&f=false I added in her current work using this website http://www.sionpower.com/board.html Libelle77 (talk) 15:32, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I took out unnecessary information Owensarahl (talk) 15:29, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I changed the title to 'career and contributions' Owensarahl (talk) 15:29, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I found her birthday 4/12/1925 myrelatives.com Autobot1995 (talk) 15:27, 18 April 2014 (UTC)Autobot1995

I used the File Upload Wizard to upload the photo and explain why we need it, it is now on the page as Evelyn_Berezin.jpeg Libelle77 (talk) 16:17, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I want to use this image http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0pBGPe6hFbo/maxresdefault.jpg as the image for Evelyn Berezin Libelle77 (talk) 16:17, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I found this video Autobot1995 (talk) 15:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC)Autobot1995 I'm interested in expanding this page with information from an interview with Ms. Berezin here

TechGeisha (talk) 17:17, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I found her husband's obituary, I want to add it to her personal life section Libelle77 (talk) 15:36, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Added her husband and physicist occupation to the info box and the source used to find her husband. I also added her hall of fame inductions and where she currently lives. Elizgee (talk) 15:08, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

You might want to look at: American women in science : 1950 to the present : a biographical dictionary Twepperson (talk) 15:21, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Feedback for the Simmons folks
I know you folks are doing some interesting research. Please try to document who's doing what on the talk page and remember to sign your comments. Thanks Twepperson (talk) 20:58, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Berezin patents
patent for data processing system Twepperson (talk) 16:14, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

If you view this page you will see that Berezin is the inventor, or co-inventor of seven patents. Certainly something could be done with this. ininventor:"Evelyn Berezin" Twepperson (talk) 21:12, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Airline reservation systems
Computer reservation system claims these date to 1946, and in particular Sabre (computer system) dates to the mid/late 1950s. It's not impossible that there might be reliable references somewhere that credit Berezin or her employers at the time, but I've never seen any. MarkMLl (talk) 19:19, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Redactron-II and -III
Noting https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/13/evelyn_berezin_obituary/ and agreeing that Berezin probably deserves more recognition in that field, I'd observe that I worked for Burroughs in the early 80s and among other things maintained Redactrons.

My understanding is that Berezin was disappointed that the Redactrons had not really introduced a revolution in secretarial work, and the units I saw were either R-IIs used as standalone word processors or were their successor the R-III which were sometimes used as terminals so that a pool of typists could handle an an organisation's routine mail: Midland Bank in the UK had regional offices using them for e.g. invitations for a customer to discuss his account with the local branch manager. I don't know what the R-IIIs used like this had as their backend, I don't think they were talking to the local B1800 "small system" so they might have been using (leased) modem lines to the bank's main computer systems (Burroughs "large systems").

I did however see a typewritten document which described a Redactron-specific text-processing backend which among other things purported to have OCR (in the very early 80s, apparently using eigenvalues in some way) but I have no reason to believe that this was any more than a project which had been abandoned when Burroughs bought Redactron lock stock and barrel.

The R-II was, IIRC, 8080-based. The CPU talked to a number of identical closely-coupled 40-pin custom chips which used proprietary (serial?) links to talk to other peripheral-specific chips, I have one on a display here labelled SMC and identified as an RGIF-01. The graphics interface was unusual since it had buffer memory for text but instead of having words wide enough to store attribute bits (embolden, underline and so on) there were reserved tags which the hardware had to apply to the bytes that followed until cancelled... the result was that screen position didn't have a consistent mapping to buffer address.

I think that the R-III had moved up to the 8085 but apart from that can't remember much about it except that it had a tiny screen (possibly about 8") positioned with absolutely horrid ergonomics... presumably Burroughs did this.

By the time I was involved both the R-II and R-III talked to standard daisy-wheel printers, Qume or Diabolo with (I think) the de-facto standard Centronics interface. Disc drives were 5.25" Shugarts which tended to drift out of alignment and had to be calibrated using a disc shipped in a sealed envelope... I think these were intended to be single-use but Burroughs didn't take much notice of that sort of thing. The keyboards, which formed the main user interface, were somewhat unpleasant since they had multiple command etc. keys and the operator had to remember numerous obscure combinations.

Oh, and if the operator removed a disc when she didn't oughter there was a loud electronic raspberry :-) MarkMLl (talk) 19:53, 15 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Various photos etc at http://www.picklesnet.com/burroughs/gallery/bpgredactron.htm After reflection I remember the "Burroughs OFIS" name being bandied about but I really don't know whether anything shipped. MarkMLl (talk) 20:15, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Job offer redacted?
"In 1960, Berezin had a job offer from the New York Stock Exchange redacted strictly because she was a woman, despite being one of few qualified for the job."

Redaction is mentioned several times in this article, but should this be "retracted"? J S Ayer (talk) 18:07, 16 March 2023 (UTC)