Career
Samuel Snyder started his career in 1936 with the Signal Intelligence Service. He was one of the first 10 employees. During World War Two, he coordinated work on Japanese military attache codes.
Later he worked on one of the early code breaking computers called ABNER and other computing systems such as Harvest.
He was the coordinator of the Library of Congress"s information systems from 1964 to 1966 and helped create a machine readable cataloging system.