Maria Klawe

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Maria Klawe (2015)

Maria Margaret Klawe (born June 23, 1951 in Toronto , Ontario ) is an American computer scientist , mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to head Harvey Mudd College in California in 2006 .

Life

Klawe spent her four to twelve years in Scotland and then lived with her family in Edmonton , Alberta . She studied at the University of Alberta , where she earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1973 and her doctorate in 1977 with the topic: "Studies in Amenable Semigroups". She worked for IBM Research in San Jose , California for eight years . In 1980 she married the computer scientist and mathematician Nick Pippenger , with whom she moved to the University of British Columbia for 15 years and worked as a scientist, vice president and dean. In 2006 she became the first woman to take over the management of Harvey Mudd College in California. In 2014, she was named 17th on the 2014 Fortune List of the 50 Greatest Leaders in the World as a scholarship holder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Research and Impact

Klawe has made significant research contributions in various areas of mathematics and computer science . She was the founder and leader of a joint project (EGEMS) to design and use computer games to improve math education for 4th to 9th grade. From 1993 to 2002 EGEMS developed several innovative and successful prototype games and was instrumental in identifying important factors for the design of effective educational software. The role of gender in technology-based learning environments and significant gender differences in how students interact with computers and software were also examined.

This research was eventually extended to projects that encouraged women to pursue careers in information technology and fill positions there permanently. Klawe was involved in this through the leading "NSERC-IBM Chair for Women in Science and Technology", which she held from 1997 to 2002.

In 2019, 90,000 girls and facilitators at Girls Who Code in all 50 US states will be able to learn the Swift programming language through an "Anyone Can Program" program . Additional Swift training courses will be organized for the management of such clubs. Apple is promoting this IT education for youth regardless of their origin and advocates the law through its Developer Academies, the Anyone Can Code curriculum, and through collaboration with the Malala Fund and the National Center for Women and Information Technology NCWIT from girls to gain equal access to boys.

In 2004, Klawe was President of the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, which is loosely associated with the US National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT.

Honors

Memberships

literature

  • Limitations on Explicit Constructions of Expanding Graphs. SIAM J. Comput. 13 (1): 156-166 (1984)
  • Shallow ridges. Theor. Comput. Sci. 123 (2): 389-395 (1994)
  • Refreshing the nerds. Commun. ACM 44 (7): 67-68 (2001)
  • Increasing Female Participation in Computing: The Harvey Mudd College Story. In: Computer 46 (3): 56-58, March 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Citizenship: US according to Forbes
  2. ↑ Apple honors female programmers and developers on International Women's Day. Retrieved on July 27, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ 2014 NCWIT Summit - NCWIT @ 10. Accessed July 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klawe, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klawe, Maria Margaret (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist, mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario