Greif's mother was an accountant,[2] and a native of New York City.[3] Greif has at least one sibling,a sister.[4] She attended Hunter College High School before earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT. In 1975,Greif became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT;[2][5] in her dissertation of that year,she published the first operational actor model.[6]
Career
She was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington before returning to MIT as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science (1977–87). In 1984,Greif and Paul Cashman coined the term "Computer Supported Cooperative Work" and the initials,CSCW,at an interdisciplinary workshop in Cambridge,Massachusetts.[7][8] Preferring research over teaching,[2] she left academia in 1987 to join Lotus,where she directed its Product Design Group,[9] and created the Lotus Research group in 1992.[10] After Lotus was acquired by IBM,she became an IBM Fellow and served as director of collaborative user experience in the company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.[5][11] Greif retired from IBM in 2013.[2]
Greif is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.[15]
Personal life
Greif is married to Albert R. Meyer,the Hitachi America Professor of Computer Science at MIT. Greif,who is Jewish,[16] has a son and daughter,as well as two step-children,and lives in Newton Centre,Massachusetts.[17]
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