Phyllis Ann Fox (March 13, 1923 – May 23, 2017) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist.
[1][2][5] During this time, she also worked as an assistant on the Whirlwind project at MIT, under Jay Forrester.
[1] From 1954 to 1958, Fox worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations on the Univac, for the Computing Center of the United States Atomic Energy Commission at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
In 1958, following her husband, she returned to Jay Forrester's system dynamics research group at MIT, where she became part of the team that wrote the DYNAMO programming language.
During this time, she also consulted for Bell Labs, where she moved in 1973 to work on a highly portable numerics library (PORT).