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RUTH M. DAVIS
RUTH M. DAVIS
Pages 74-79
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In 1961 she married George Lohr, who passed away in 1994. Ruth Davis set her life's course as a determined and innovative technical person when she was in high school by displaying no interest in the clerical or teaching jobs that awaited most girls growing up in the 1940s.
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She reminisced with friends about her 1-cubic-foot desktop computer that preceded the PC by 15 years. Over her public service career Ruth managed $4 billion production enterprises: the US Uranium Enrichment Services, the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, the Federal Power Marketing Administrations, and the Naval Petroleum Reserves.
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Not finding software for nonmilitary encryption at the National Security Agency, Ruth, as first director of the NBS National Institute for Computer Science and Technology, led a team to develop the public data encryption standard that remains in use today. In 1980, at age 52, Ruth retired from the federal government and founded the Pymatuning Group, which she named after an Indian tribe in western Pennsylvania that, not surprisingly, was headed by a woman chief.
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, the Federal Woman of the Year Award (1972) , the Ada Augusta Lovelace Award for Computer Science (1984)
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Ruth leaves us with fond memories of an outstanding engineer and a great lady.
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