SICSAM, Sammet organized a conference held in March 1966, which was the Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation (SYMSAM). In June 1966, Tony Oettinger was elected president of ACM and Sammet was elected the Northeast Regional Representative (1966-1968). She was also a member of the ACM Council and ACM lecturer (1967, 1968, and 1972). Bernie Galler was elected president of ACM in 1968 and in August 1968, Sammet became chairperson of the ACM Committee on SIGs and SICs. In 1971 she was elected chair of SIGPLAN. She served one year of a two-year term before resigning because she was elected vice president of ACM in 1972. As chairperson of SIGPLAN, she organized conferences between SIGPLAN and various Special Interest Groups. Sammet has stated that these conferences were organized based on the recognition of how fundamental programming languages were to different aspects within computing. Sammet served as vice president of ACM from June 1972 to June 1974. Working with the president of ACM at the time, Tony Ralston, Sammet made the finances of ACM a priority. At the time of her vice presidency, ACM was almost bankrupt. Sammet convinced Ralston to hold a member-office forum prior to their annual conference. Sammet encouraged this based on her recognition that ACM had no realistic way of communicating with the membership. Death Sammet died on May 20, 2017 in Silver Spring, Maryland after a brief illness. Selected works Detailed Description of COBOL, 1960 Awards 1975: Honorary Member of UPE (the International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Sciences), inducted on October 8, 1975. 1989: Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the Association for Women in Computing. 1994: Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery 1997: SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (J.A.N. Lee and Jean E. Sammet) 2001: Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for her contributions to the field of programming languages and its history." 2009: Computer Pioneer Award Recipient (IEEE Computer Society) 2013: NCWIT Pioneer Award See also COMIT Grace Hopper List of computer scientists Women in computing References External links Biography of Jean Sammet — History of Programming Languages website, Murdoch University. History of Programming Languages records at Charles Babbage Institute. Sammet's participation in UNIVAC conference, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. 171-page transcript of oral history with computer pioneers, including Jean Sammet, involved with the Univac computer, held on 17–18 May 1990. The meeting involved 25 engineers, programmers, marketing representatives, and salesmen who were involved