Betty Rose Weber Holz (September 15, 1919 – September 3, 2005) was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Army.
Early life and education
Betty Rose Weber was born in Florida, the daughter of William Wilson Weber and Rosalie I. Langford Weber. Her father was a math professor.
Weber earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from
Columbia College in 1940. She completed a master's degree in mathematics at the
University of South Carolina in 1949, and pursued further graduate studies at the
University of North Carolina and at
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
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[ "DOFL Researcher Proves Women Simulate Gaming in War as Well as Men" ''Army Research and Development Newsmagazine'' 3(April 1962): 30. via Internet Archive] As a student, she won a medal for excellence in piano performance.
Career
Holz taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina, and was an engineer with
Melpar
Melpar was an American government contractor in the 20th century Cold War period.
At a time when most employment in Washington, DC was directly by the US federal government, Melpar became an early private sector contracting company training a hig ...
, a defense contractor. Beginning in 1954, she was an analyst for the United States Army's
Operations Research Office
The Operations Research Office (ORO) was a civilian military research center founded in 1948 by the United States Army. It was run under contract by Johns Hopkins University and is regarded as one of the founding institutes of operations research ...
, later the Research Analysis Corporation, in
Washington, D.C. In 1961 she and Edward M. Girard represented the US at the American-British-Canadian Ad Hoc Working Group on
War Gaming and Simulation when it met in London.
In the 1960s and 1970s, she helped to develop ELIM (the Enlisted Loss Inventory Model) and COMPLIP (Computation of Manpower Programs Using Linear Programming), early computer programs for modeling military manpower and logistics.
Holz was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...
, the
Operations Research Society of America
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger o ...
, and the
American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
* "Analysis of Means for Moving Logistic Cargo from Ship to Shore" (1957, with William H. Sutherland)
* ''Table of Exponentially Distributed Pseudo-random Numbers'' (1959, with Charles E. Clark)
* ''Operational mobility of armored units: The ROAM simulation'' (1961)
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* "The Army's Approach to Improved Strength Forecasting" (1981, with James M. Wroth)
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* "Technologies for Person-Job Matching" (1986, with Edward J. Schmitz)
Personal life
Weber married chemical engineer Eugene Russell Holz in 1952.
Her husband died in 1955.
She died in 2005, aged 85 years, in Maryland.
References
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1919 births
2005 deaths
American women mathematicians
Columbia College (South Carolina) alumni
University of South Carolina alumni
United States Army civilians
University of South Carolina faculty
20th-century American mathematicians
University of North Carolina alumni
Mathematicians from Florida
American University alumni
20th-century American women
21st-century American women