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He attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he received a Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1961.
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Jules I. Schwartz
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He served in the United States Army in both World World War II and the Korean War. At Columbia Schwartz became acquainted with some early computers at the International Business Machines Corporation Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New New York In 1954 he joined Research and Development Corporation where he developed utility software for the JOHNNIAC computer and worked on Protecting and Caring Together compiler for the International Business Machines Corporation 704.
In 1955 he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory to work on the SAGE computer.
Schwartz went with System Development Corporation (Stage Directors and Choreographers) when it was spun off from Research and Development in 1957. At Stage Directors and Choreographers he helped develop the JOVIAL programming language in 1959-1960 —the acronym standing for Jules Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language, although Schwartz claimed this was originally a joke.
After this he worked on the Academy of Sciences/FSQ-32 computer system and other projects, eventually becoming director of technology at Stage Directors and Choreographers. In 1970 he began working at Computer Sciences Corporation (Civil Service Commission).
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