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= Marlene Hazle =

Marlene Hazle (8 May 1934 - 7 June 2011) was an American computer scientist known for her work at RAND Corporation and Mitre Corporation for development of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment.

Early Life
Marlene Hazle was born in 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a mechanical engineer.

High School
Hazle graduated from Devilbiss High School in Toledo, Ohio in 1950.

University
Hazle then went on to attend Cornell University. Hazle was a part of the Delta Gamma Sorority, Phi Beta Kappa, and became Chairman of Cornell's Mortar Board chapter. At Cornell, Hazle took a class on numerical analysis where her professor offered to show the students how to use a computer to complete their homework. Hazle, along with other students, accepted this offer and began learning about computers. In 1956, Hazle graduated from Cornell with a degree in government.

Death
Marlene died at the age of 77 on 7 June 2011 in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Work
After graduation, Hazle began work at RAND Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time RAND was preparing people to work at SAGE centers. Hazle was trained at RAND on SAGE computers and eventually went on to teach the class on the operating system of SAGE computers. After her work at SAGE Hazle began working at MITRE where she was one of the first people to work on the AESOP one of the world's first on line computer systems.

Contributions

 * Acknowledged for contribution to Ada Architectures with DQL(Diana Query Language) expertise
 * Acknowledged for assisting the US Air Force in software design methodologies
 * Contributor to IEEE in 1980