Background
Evens, Martha Walton was born on January 1, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Clarence Russell and Virgene (Dupka) Walton.
Evens, Martha Walton was born on January 1, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Clarence Russell and Virgene (Dupka) Walton.
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College, 1955. Postgraduate, University Paris, 1956. Master of Arts in Mathematics, Radcliffe College, 1957.
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1975.
Doctor Evens worked on the first spelling correction program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in the late 1950s. She shared the European Fellowship (with Nancy Degenhardt, Greek major). Evens was president of the classics club and played field hockey and basketball for the college.
Her first interaction with a computer was in the summer of 1957 when she received an Master of Arts in Mathematics from Radcliffe and was hired as a "Mathematician" by Oliver Selfridge at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory.
That computer was an International Business Machines Corporation 709, which became a 7090 when Doctor Evens went back to Lincoln Laboratory in the summer of 1958. She did take a class in FORTRAN II using the first FORTRAN compiler shipped by International Business Machines Corporation in 1958.
Doctor Evens completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 1975. During her career at IIT, Doctor Evens served as advisor or co-advisor of over 100 Doctor of Philosophy students.
Precinct captain Democratic party of Evanston, 1972-1975. Board directors North Shore Village, since 2009. Member Association for Computational Linguistics (president 1984).
Married Leonard Evens, September 13, 1958. Children: Sarah Helen, Samuel Robert, Anne Chaia.