Charlotte Davis Mooers (25 March 1924 – 17 March 2005)[2] was an American computer scientist whose research on programming languages began during World War II and continued through the early-1990s.

[1] Born in Washington, DC on 25 March 1924,[2] Charlotte was the daughter of Watson Davis, director of the Washington-based news organization Science Service, and Helen Miles Davis, editor of Chemistry magazine.

[3] In a letter to her husband on 2 September 1945, Helen Davis wrote that Charlotte and Calvin Mooers were discussing marriage,[3] and the two eventually wed.[4] During World War II, Davis worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.

[3] She was part of the Acoustic Division and, at one point, was under the supervision of John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor.

[6] In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked on the HERMES Message System at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.[7][8] Oral history interview with Calvin N. Mooers and Charlotte D. Mooers