Irina Athanasiu (Bucharest, March 7, 1948 – December 28, 2006) was a Romanian professor of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science.
Irina authored and co-authored many computer-science books, including 8086, 286, 386 Micro-Processors, WordStar, Turbo Pascal 6.0, Borland Pascal 7.0 for Windows, Introduction to Turbo Pascal, Programming Techniques, The UNIX Operating System, and Java Programming Language.