[3] Her father, Paul Weiss, a noted British mathematician of German descent, had already arrived in the U.S. in September 1950[3] and was living in Syracuse, NY.
[4][failed verification] While working for Bell Labs in the 1950s and 1960s, Weiss co-developed, with Richard Hamming, the L2 interpretive floating point package.
[8] Weiss's 1966 paper[9] on her BE VISION software for the IBM 7090 describes hidden-line removal in curved surfaces, a challenging problem at the time.
According to Carlson,[10] "Ruth Weiss created in 1964 (published in 1966) some of the first algorithms for converting equations of surfaces to orthographic views on an output device."
In a 1966 paper,[11] Ivan E. Sutherland stated that the problem of hidden-line removal remained unsolved for surfaces other than planes.