Jeannette Wing

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Jeannette Wing
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, on January 26, 2013.
Born
Jeannette Marie Wing

(1956-12-04) 4 December 1956 (age 67)
Nationality American
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Columbia University,
Carnegie Mellon University,
University of Southern California
Thesis A Two-Tiered Approach to Specifying Programs  (1983)
Doctoral advisor John Guttag [1]
Doctoral students Greg Morrisett [1]
Website cs.cmu.edu/~wing/

Jeannette Marie Wing is Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, where she is also a professor of computer science. [2] Until June 30, 2017, she was Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research with oversight of its core research laboratories around the world and Microsoft Research Connections. [3] [4] Prior to 2013, she was the President's Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She also served as assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the NSF from 2007 to 2010. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] She was appointed the Columbia University executive vice president for research in 2021. [15]

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Background

Wing earned her S.B. and S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in June 1979. Her advisers were Ronald Rivest and John Reiser. In 1983, she earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT under John Guttag. [1] She is a fourth-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do. [16]

Career and research

Wing was on the faculty of the University of Southern California from 1982 to 1985 and then the faculty of Carnegie Mellon from 1985 to 2012. She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2004 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2012. In January 2013, she took a leave from Carnegie Mellon to work at Microsoft Research.

Wing has been a leading member of the formal methods community, especially in the area of Larch. She has led many research projects and has published widely. [17]

With Barbara Liskov, she developed the Liskov substitution principle, published in 1993.

She has also been a strong promoter of computational thinking, expressing the algorithmic problem-solving and abstraction techniques used by computer scientists and how they might be applied in other disciplines. [5]

She is a member of the editorial board of the following journals:

Recognition

Wing was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, "for contributions to methods for software systems". [18]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Jeannette Wing at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "President Bollinger Names Microsoft Research Head Jeannette Wing to Lead Columbia's Data Science Institute" . Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Jeannette Wing" . Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  4. ↑ Clayton, Steve (November 20, 2012). "Dr. Jeannette Wing: New Vice President, Head of Microsoft Research International". blogs.microsoft.com.
  5. 1 2 Wing, Jeanette M. (2006). "Computational thinking" (PDF). Communications of the ACM . 49 (3): 33–35. doi:10.1145/1118178.1118215. hdl: 10818/29866 . S2CID   1693513.
  6. ↑ Wing, Jeannette M; Woodcock, Jim; Davies, Jim, eds. (1999). FM'99 – Formal Methods: World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems Toulouse, France, September 20–24, 1999 Proceedings, Volume I . LNCS. Vol. 1708. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/3-540-48119-2. ISBN   978-3-540-66587-8. S2CID   36821080.
  7. ↑ Wing, Jeannette M; Woodcock, Jim; Davies, Jim, eds. (1999). FM'99 – Formal Methods: World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems Toulouse, France, September 20–24, 1999 Proceedings, Volume II . LNCS. Vol. 1709. Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/3-540-48118-4. ISBN   978-3-540-66588-5. S2CID   2986421.
  8. ↑ Martin, U.; Wing, J. M., eds. (1993). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Larch. Workshops in Computing. Springer-Verlag. ISBN   978-3-540-19804-8.
  9. ↑ Garland, S. J.; Jones, K. D.; Modet, A.; Wing, J. M. (1993). Guttag, J. V.; Horning, J. J. (eds.). Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification. Springer-Verlag. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.137.5123 . doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-2704-5. ISBN   978-1-4612-7636-4. S2CID   13066418.
  10. ↑ Jeannette M. Wing at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  11. ↑ Jeannette Wing's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  12. ↑ Jeannette Wing author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  13. ↑ Herlihy, M. P.; Wing, J. M. (1990). "Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 12 (3): 463. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.142.5315 . doi:10.1145/78969.78972. S2CID   228785.
  14. ↑ Clarke, E. M.; Wing, J. M. (1996). "Formal methods: State of the art and future directions". ACM Computing Surveys. 28 (4): 626. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.60.8874 . doi:10.1145/242223.242257. S2CID   5534240.
  15. ↑ "Jeannette Wing promoted to executive vice president for research - Columbia Spectator". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  16. ↑ McLaughlin, Kevin. "14 Tech Execs Who Could Probably Kick Your Butt In A Fight". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  17. ↑ "Jeannette M. Wing". cs.cmu.edu.
  18. ↑ "IEEE Fellows directory". IEEE. Retrieved 2021-07-24.


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