Background
Whidden, Samuel Blackwell was born on October 19, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of Charles Dwinell and Ethel Blackwell (Jones) Whidden.
Whidden, Samuel Blackwell was born on October 19, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of Charles Dwinell and Ethel Blackwell (Jones) Whidden.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1952. Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1962.
Satellite tracking station chief Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nainital, India, 1957—1959. Assistant to president Device Development Corporation, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1962—1968. Member consultant committees computer services Society Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1981—1983.
Chair national special interest group programming languages and tools Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society, since 1986. Member School Committee, Wayland, Massachusetts, 1964—1968, chairman, 1967—1968. Served with United States Army, 1955-1957.
Member of Data Processing Management Association, Association Computing Machinery, American Mathematics Society (director computer services since 1968), Mathematics Association America (member consultant committee computer services 1978-1980).
Married Martha L. Holt Whidden, December 28, 1957 (divorced January 1972). Children: Elizabeth, Peter, Charles, Rebecca.