Joan Feigenbaum

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Joan Feigenbaum (born 1958 in New York) is a theoretical computer scientist with a background in mathematics, the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.[1] She is known for her research on trust management.

Education and career

Feigenbaum did her undergraduate work at Harvard University. She became interested in computers during the Summer Research Program at AT&T's Bell Labs between her Junior and senior years. She then earned a PHD in computer science at Stanford University, under the supervision of Andrew Yao,[2] while working summers at Bell Labs. After graduation she joined Bell Labs. She became the Hopper Professor at Yale in 2008.[1]

Family

She is married to Jeffrey Nussbaum. They have a son, Sam Baum. Baum was chosen as child's surname as the greatest common suffix of Feigenbaum and Nussbaum.[3]

Awards and honors

In 2001, Feigenbaum became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her "foundational and highly influential contributions to cryptographic complexity theory, authorization and trust management, massive-data-stream computation, and algorithmic mechanism design."[4] In 2012 she was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Joan Feigenbaum Named the Grace Murray Hopper Professor", Yale News, July 18, 2008 .
  2. ↑ Joan Feigenbaum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Notable Women in Mathematics, a Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Greenwood Press, 1998. p 50.
  4. ↑ ACM Fellows: Joan Feigenbaum, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2012-12-29 .
  5. ↑ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows", Science 338, November 30, 2012: 1168–1171 .
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