Maria Klawe

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Maria Klawe
File:Maria Klawe 2015.jpg
Klawe in 2015
5th President of Harvey Mudd College
Assumed office
July 1, 2006 (2006-07-01)
Preceded by Jon Strauss
Personal details
Born 1951 (age 72–73)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s) Nicholas Pippenger, 1980
Children Two children
Alma mater B.Sc., University of Alberta, 1973
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1977

Maria Margaret Klawe (pronounced CLAW-vay, born 1951) is a computer scientist and the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College (since July 1, 2006).[1] Although born in Toronto in 1951, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009. She was previously Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.

Biography

Klawe was born in Toronto, Ontario. She lived in Scotland from ages 4 to 12, and then returned to Canada, living with her family in Edmonton, Alberta.[2] Klawe studied at the University of Alberta, dropped out to travel the world, and returned to earn her B.Sc. in 1973.[2] She stayed at Alberta for her graduate studies, and in 1977 she earned her Ph.D. there in mathematics.[3] She joined the mathematics faculty at Oakland University as an assistant professor in 1977 but only stayed for a year. She started a second Ph.D., in computer science, at the University of Toronto, but was offered a faculty position there before completing the degree.[2] She spent eight years in the industry, serving at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, first as a research scientist, then as manager of the Discrete Mathematics Group and manager of the Mathematics and Related Computer Science Department. She and her husband Nick Pippenger then moved to the University of British Columbia, where she stayed for 15 years and served as head of the Department of Computer Science from 1988 to 1995, vice president of student and academic services from 1995 to 1998, and dean of science from 1998 to 2002. From UBC she moved to Princeton and then Harvey Mudd College, where she is the first woman president.[4][5] She became a citizen of the United States on January 29, 2009.[6] Later in 2009, she joined the board of directors of the Microsoft Corporation.[7]

Awards and honors

Klawe was inducted as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[8] in 1996, a founding fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society[9] in 2006, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[10] in 2009, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[11] in 2012.

She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Ryerson Polytechnic University[12] in 2001, the University of Waterloo[13] in 2003, Queen's University[14] in 2004, Dalhousie University[15] in 2005, Acadia University[16] in 2006, the University of Alberta[16] in 2007, the University of Ottawa[17] in 2008, the University of British Columbia[18] in 2010, and the University of Toronto in 2015.[19]

She also served as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery from 2002-2004, and in 2004 won their A. Nico Habermann award.[20]

Research

Some of Klawe's best-cited research works concern algorithms for solving geometric optimization problems,[21] distributed leader election,[22] and the art gallery problem,[23] and studies of the effects of gender on electronic game-playing. [24][25] She founded the Aphasia Project, a collaboration between UBC and Princeton to study aphasia and develop cognitive aids for people suffering from it, after her friend Anita Borg developed brain cancer.[26][27]

Advocacy for technical women

Klawe has been heavily involved with increasing the representation of women in STEM fields.[28] In 1991, together with Nancy Leveson, she founded CRA-W (The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) and served as its first co-chair.[29] She was also a personal friend of Anita Borg and served as the chair of the Board of Trustees of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology from 1996 to 2011.[30] Klawe was a huge advocate for salary negotiation by women, disagreeing with Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella, when he said "It’s not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise. That might be one of the initial 'super powers,' that quite frankly, women (who) don’t ask for a raise have. It’s good karma. It will come back."[31]

Art

Klawe has also exhibited her watercolors.[4][5][32]

References

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  11. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved January 27, 2013.
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  17. ↑ Maria KLAWE, 2008 | Doctorats honorifiques | Cabinet du recteur
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