death_place death_date nationality work_institutions birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
argyle , wisconsin 27 august 2006 american u.s. technology naval reserve , national institute of standards and 19 may 1916 chief bureau of standards -lrb- now national institute of standards and of technology the office of computer information , national margaret r. fox
 margaret r. fox wisconsin state college
margaret r. fox

margaret r. fox is an american electronics engineer and computer scientist .
she was appointed chief of the office of computer information , part of the institute for computer science and technology of the national bureau of standards -lrb- now the national institute of standards and technology -rrb- in 1966 .
fox held this position until 1975 .
fox was born in 1916 .
she graduated from wisconsin state college in 1940 .
she taught school before joining the u.s. naval reserve in 1943 .
she was stationed at the naval research station in washington , d.c. and after her discharge in 1946 , she continued working as an electronics engineer in radar .
fox joined the national bureau of standards as a member of the technical staff of the electronic computer laboratory in 1951 and later joined the research information center and advisory service on information processing , where she produced reviews and bibliographies .
along with samuel alexander , fox prepared and planned a series of college computer courses beginning in 1966 .
she chaired the technical program committee and in 1973 , she became representative of the bureau 's center for computer sciences and technology .
fox was involved with the association for computing machinery , the american federation of information processing societies -lrb- afips -rrb- , and other professional groups .
fox was the first secretary of afips .
