Present Notable Women of Computing

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Computer Science Department Chairs

• Ruzena Bajcsy, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. '72 Stanford*
• Marina Chen, Boston University, Ph.D. '83 CalTech*
• Dorothy Denning, Georgetown University*
• Maria Klawe, Univ. of British Columbia*

Computer Science Full Professors

• Geneva Belford, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Lori Clarke, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst*
• Lynn Conway, Michigan
• Patricia Eberlein, SUNY Buffalo
• Thelma Estrin, UCLA (Emeritus)
• Harriet Fell, Northeastern
• Charlotte Fischer, Vanderbilt
• Joyce Friedman, Boston University
• Irene Gargantini, Univ. of Western Ontario
• Shafi Goldwasser, MIT, Ph.D. '83 Berkeley*
• Susan Graham, UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Stanford*
• Shiela Greibach, UCLA
• Barbara Grosz, Harvard, Ph.D. Berkeley*
• Starr Roxanne Hiltz, New Jersey Inst. Tech.
• Mary Jane Irwin, Penn. State
• Janet Kolodner, Georgia Tech
• Wendy Lehnert, U. Massachusetts, Amherst*
• Nancy Leveson, U. of Washington*
• Barbara Liskov, MIT, Ph.D. Stanford*
• Jane Liu, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Nancy Lynch, MIT*
• Sandra Mamrak, Ohio State
• Dianne O'Leary, Maryland
• Linda Petzold, U. of Minnesota
• Manijeh Razeghi, Northwestern*
• Edwina Rissland, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst*
• Betty Salzberg, Northeastern
• Mary Shaw, Carnegie-Mellon, Ph.D. '72 CMU*
• Sally Shepard, Texas A&M
• Mary Lou Soffa, Univ. of Pittsburgh
• Kathleen Swigger, Univ. of North Texas
• Helen Takacs, Mississippi State
• Elizabeth Unger, Kansas State
• Mary Vernon, U. of Wisconsin-Madison*
• Elaine Weyuker, NYU

Computer Science Associate Professors

• Stella Atkins, Simon Fraser
• Marsha Berger, NYU
• Fran Berman, U.C. San Diego
• Meera Blattner, U.C. Davis (and LLNL)
• Lois Boggess, Mississippi State
• Sandee Carberry, Delaware
• Cynthia Brown, Northeastern
• Agnes Chan, Northeastern
• Elaine Cohen, Utah
• Robin Cohen, Waterloo
• Anne Condon, U. of Wisconsin-Madison*
• Jan Cuny, U. Massachusetts, Amherst*
• Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser
• Susan Davidson, U. of Pennsylvania
• Lois Delcambre, Southwestern Louisiana
• Laura Dillon, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
• Sarah Douglas, U. of Oregon
• Joanne Bechta Dugan, Duke
• Carla Ellis, Duke
• Faith Fich, Toronto
• Janice Glascow, Queens Univ.
• Carole Hafner, Northeastern
• Susanna Hambrusch, Purdue
• Johnette Hassell, Tulane
• Lois Hawkes, Florida State
• Sandra Mitchell Hedetniemi, Clemson
• Julia Hodges, Mississippi State
• Sallie Henry, VPI
• Susan Horwitz, U. of Wisconsin-Madison*
• Ilse Ipsen North Carolina State Math Dept.*
• Deborah Joseph, U. of Wisconsin-Madison*
• Gail Kaiser, Columbia
• Andrea LaPaugh, Princeton
• Kathy McKeown, Columbia
• Nancy Miller, Mississippi State
• Sylvia Osborn, Univ. of Western Ontario
• Meral Oszoyoglu, Case Western
• Lynn Peterson, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
• Martha Pollack, Univ. of Pittsburgh
• Viera Proulx, Northeastern
• Vijaya Ramachandran, U. Texas
• Barbara Ryder, Rutgers
• Sharon Salveter, Boston University
• Carla Savage, North Carolina State*
• Linda Shapiro, Univ. of Washington
• Lucia Vaina, Boston University
• Annaliese von Mayrhauser, Illinois Inst Tech
• Deborah Walters, SUNY Buffalo
• Pearl Wang, George Mason
• Carolyn Wardle, Boston University
• Bonnie Webber, U. of Pennsylvania
• Judy Weiner, Temple
• Sue Whitesides, McGill
• Susan Wiedenbeck, University of Nebraska
• Jeannette Wing, CMU
• Ann Yasuhara, Rutgers

Computer Science Assistant Professors

• Beth Adelson, Tufts
• Vicki Allan, Utah State
• Myla Archer, U. of California, Davis
• Mary Bailey, Arizona
• Heather Booth, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Adrienne Bloss, Virginia Tech.
• Soma Chaudhuri, Iowa State
• Betty Cheng, Michigan State
• Hyeong-Ah Choi, George Washington
• Rina Dechter, U. of California, Irvine
• Chrysanne DiMarco, Waterloo
• Susan Eggers, Washington
• Magda El Zarki, U. of Pennsylvania
• Debra Estrin, USC
• Margaret Fleck, U. of Iowa
• Stephanie Forrest, New Mexico
• Phyllis Frankl, Polytechnic U. of NY (Brooklyn Polytechnic)
• Joan Francioni, Southwestern Louisiana
• Judy Gardiner, Ohio State
• Sally Goldman, Washington Univ., St. Louis
• Eleanor O'Meara Hare, Clemson
• Mary Jean Harrold, Clemson
• Caroline Hayes, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Rachelle Heller, George Washington
• Lisa Hellerstein, Northwestern*
• Laurie Hendren, McGill
• Mary Lou Hines, U. of Missouri, Kansas City
• Susan Hummel, Polytechnic U. of NY (Brooklyn Polytechnic)
• Peggy Israel, U. Alabama, Huntsville
• Elizabeth Jessup, U. Colorado, Boulder
• Leslie Kaelbling, Brown
• Deborah Knox, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (? gone)
• Monica Lam, Stanford
• Diane Litman, Columbia
• Ginnie Lo, U. of Oregon
• Anna Lubiw, Waterloo
• Joan Lucas, Rutgers (on leave at SUNY/Brockport)
• Bonnie MacKellar, New Jersey Inst. Tech.
• Fillia Makedon, U. Texas, Dallas
• Dianne Martin, George Washington
• Lina Massone, Northwestern*
• Kathy McCoy, Delaware
• Carolyn McCreary, Auburn
• Margaret Montenyohl, Southwestern Louisiana
• Johanna Moore, Pittsburgh
• Naomi Nishimura, Waterloo
• Mirjana Obradovic, Washington State
• Cherri Pancake, Auburn
• Joan Peckham, Rhode Island*
• Debra Richardson, UC Irvine
• Janet Rutledge, Northwestern*
• Donna Quammen, George Mason
• Susan Rodger, RPI
• Anne Rogers, Princeton
• Jeanette Schmidt, Polytechnic U. of NY (Brooklyn Polytechnic)
• Jean Scholtz, Portland State
• Wendy Seward, Waterloo
• Meera Sitharam, Kent State
• Diane Souvaine, Rutgers
• Padmini Srinivasan, Southwestern Louisiana
• Lynn Stein, MIT*
• Wennie Shum, SUNY Buffalo
• Lorna Stewart, U. of Alberta
• Devika Subramanian, Cornell
• Kim Taylor, UC Santa Cruz
• Valerie Taylor, Northwestern*
• Pat Teller, New Mexico State
• Elise Turner, U. of New Hampshire
• Susan Urban, Arizona State
• Ellen Walker, RPI
• Jennifer Welch, U. North Carolina
• Jane Wilhelms, UC Santa Cruz
• Marianne Winslett, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Jennifer Whitehead, CUNY/Queen's College
• Heather Woll, UC San Diego
• Kathy Yelick, Berkeley
• Maria Zamfir-Bleyburg, Kansas State
• Maria Zemankova, Tennessee
• Lenore Zuck, Yale, Ph.D. '87 Weizmann Inst. of Science*
• Amy Zwarico, Johns Hopkins

Computer Science - Unsure of Rank

• Eshrat Arjomandi, York University (Ontario)
• Laurette Bradley, UC San Diego
• Elise deDoncker, Western Michigan
• Tzilla Elrad, IIT
• Martha Evans, IIT
• Carolyn Eastman, South Carolina
• Mary Hayser, Purdue
• Sally Howden, Michigan State
• Ursula Maydell, U. of Alberta
• Terry Nutter, VPI
• Pearl Pu, Connecticut
• Mildred Shaw, Calgary

European and Asian Faculty

• Luigia Aiello, Univ. of Rome
• Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel
• Jean Bacon, Univ. of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
• Dominique Borrione, Marseille
• Vicky Bush, Manchester Univ.
• Anne Copestake, Univ. of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
• Elfreide Fehr, Free University, Berlin
• Leonie Dreshler-Fisher, Univ. of Hamburg
• Christiana Floyd, Technical Univ. of Berlin
• Marie-Claude Gaudel, Univ. of Paris - Sud
• Carol Goble, Manchester Univ.
• Ursula Hill-Samuelson, Technical Univ. of Munich
• Liz Hogger, RHBNC, Univ. of London
• Hilary Kahn, Manchester Univ.
• Helene Kirchner, (somewhere in France)
• Ursula Martin, Univ. of London
• K. Mason, Manchester Univ.
• Penny Probert, Oxford, Robotics Group
• Beverly Sanders, ETH, Zurich
• Gabriel Saucier, Laboratoir CSI/INPG, Grenoble
• Britta Schinzel, Univ. of Aachen
• Mary Sheeran, Glasgow Univ.
• Karen Sparck Jones, Univ. of Cambridge Computer Laboratory*
• Victoria Stavridou, Univ. of London
• Muffy Thomas, Glasgow Univ.
• June Verner, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia

Computer Engineering Full Professors

• Leah Jamieson, Purdue
• Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, UC Santa Barbara
• Alice Parker, USC

Computer Engineering Associate Professors

• Donna Brown, U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
• Ruth Davis, Santa Clara
• Samiha Mourad, Santa Clara
• Sally Wood, Santa Clara

Computer Engineering Assistant Professors

• Jill Crisman, Northeastern
• Tracy Larrabee, U.C. Santa Cruz
• Louise Moser, UC Santa Barbara
• Eve Riskin, Univ. of Washington
• Diane Thiede Rover, Michigan State
• Martine Schlag, UC Santa Cruz
• Dottie Setliff, Pittsburgh

Computer Engineering - Unsure of Rank

• Mary Harper, Purdue
• Ruby Lee, Stanford
• Teresa Meng, Stanford

Senior Researchers in Academia

• Dana Angluin, Yale University, Ph.D. '76 Berkeley*

Senior Women in Computing in Industry/Government

• Fran Allen, IBM Fellow, Honorary Ph.D. '91 U. of Alberta*
• Anita Borg, DEC Network Systems Laboratory, Ph.D. '81 NYU*
• Adele Goldberg, Chair of ParcPlace Systems, Ph.D. U. of Chicago*
• Irene Greif, Lotus Technologies, Ph.D. MIT*
• Anita Jones, Director of Defense Research & Engineering, DOD (former Chair, U. of Virginia)*
• Telle Whitney, Actel Corporation, Ph.D. '85 CalTech*

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