Biography
Helen Mikulski was a native of Cleveland, Ohio and had her first glimpse of the world on 15 July 1927. In 1949 she obtained a B.S. degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, which is located in Berea, Ohio. Her major subject was mathematics.
Miss Mikulski's first position was that of a research mathematician and later she worked as a measurements engineer. She then joined what was then known as the Lighting Research and Technical Service Operation (LR&TSO;) and became a statistician.
In 1955 Miss Mikulski was associated with F.W. Kuhlman and W.H. Abbott and worked with what would be considered archaic computer equipment today. Their equipment was an IBM machine, which was a card-programmed computer.
Internal GE reports indicate that Helen worked on maintenance of electroluminescent lamps, a statistical study of starting conditions of indium iodide arc lamps, a time-sharing program for preparing tape to operate a numerically-controlled cam milling machine, A FORTRAN program for analysis of incomplete block designs, a computer technique for process cost analysis, an analysis of an experimental design of a SLIMLINE lamp as well as several studies of analyses using Yates' method.
Helen Mikulski passed away on 1 January 1975.
