Jeannette
Wing
Carnegie
Mellon
University
Computational
Thinking
Biography: Jeannette
M.
Wing
is
the
President's
Professor
of
Computer
Science
and
Head
of
the
Computer
Science
Department
at
Carnegie
Mellon
University.
She
received
her
SB,
SM,
and
PhD
degrees
from
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology.
From
2007-2010
she
was
the
Assistant
Director
of
the
Computer
and
Information
Science
and
Engineering
Directorate
at
the
National
Science
Foundation.
Professor
Wing's
general
research
interests
are
in
the
areas
of
trustworthy
computing,
specification
and
verification,
concurrent
and
distributed
systems,
programming
languages,
and
software
engineering.
Her
current
interests
are
on
the
foundations
of
trustworthy
computing,
with
a
focus
on
the
science
of
security
and
privacy.
Professor
Wing
was
or
is
on
the
editorial
board
of
twelve
journals.
She
is
a
member
of
Computing
Research
Association
Board
and
the
Microsoft
Trustworthy
Computing
Academic
Advisory
Board.
She
has
been
a
member
of
many
other
advisory
boards,
including:
the
Networking
and
Information
Technology
(NITRD)
Technical
Advisory
Group
to
the
President's
Council
of
Advisors
on
Science
and
Technology
(PCAST),
the
National
Academies
of
Sciences'
Computer
Science
and
Telecommunications
Board,
ACM
Council,
the
DARPA
Information
Science
and
Technology
(ISAT)
Board,
NSF's
CISE
Advisory
Committee,
the
Intel
Research
Pittsburgh's
Advisory
Board,
and
the
Sloan
Research
Fellowships
Program
Committee.
She
served
as
co-chair
of
NITRD
from
2007-2010.
She
received
the
CRA
Distinguished
Service
Award
in
2011.
She
is
a
member
of
Sigma
Xi,
Phi
Beta
Kappa,
Tau
Beta
Pi,
and
Eta
Kappa
Nu.
She
is
a
Fellow
of
the
American
Academy
of
Arts
and
Sciences,
American
Association
for
the
Advancement
of
Science,
the
Association
for
Computing
Machinery
(ACM),
and
the
Institute
of
Electrical
and
Electronic
Engineers
(IEEE).