Samuel Simon Snyder was a cryptographer for the United States Government. His wife was Patricia Yakerson Snyder.

Career

Samuel Snyder started his career in 1936 with the Signal Intelligence Service; he was one of the first 10 employees. During World War Two, he coordinated work on Japanese military attache codes. Later he worked on one of the early code breaking computers called ABNER and other computing systems such as Harvest. He was the coordinator of the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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's information systems from 1964 to 1966 and helped create a machine readable cataloging system.

Mr. Snyder has been inducted into the National Security Agency

National Security Agency

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 - NSA Hall of Honor

NSA Hall of Honor

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, holds a Defense Department Meritorious Civilian Service Award

Meritorious Civilian Service Award

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and The Washington Post "Ideal Father of the Year" for 1949.

Books

Man and the Computer, Ashley Montagu and Samuel Snyder, Auerbach Publishers, 1972 (ISBN 0877691460)

History of NSA General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computers, Samuel S. Snyder, National Security Agency, 1964. A scanned PDF version is on-line at http://www.governmentattic.org/3docs/NSA-HGPEDC_1964.pdf (3.3MB)