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Ada Lovelace Day

Ada Lovelace Day

A celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

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Edit-a-thon (2015)

Below are women computing scientists who have worked or studied at the University of Edinburgh that we have identified for our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. They either have a minimal presence or no page at all on Wikipedia. This not an exhaustive list of names of resources though, so you may wish to do further research in advance of the event, or identify another woman computing scientist that you would like to write about.

Professor Johanna Moore – currently Head of the School of Informatics

Dr Barbara Webb – Artificial Intelligence, 1993

Dr Nicole Schweikardt – Post-Doc 2002 – 2003

Dr Judy Robertson BSc Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science 1997, PhD 2001

Dr Martha Palmer PhD Artificial Intelligence 1985

Dr Judy Delin, PhD Cognitive Science

Professor Lesley Stirling, PhD 1989

Professor Fairouz Kamareddine, PhD 1989

  • http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~fairouz/

Kim Binsted -Artificial Intelligence PhD (1996)
HI-SEAS, for Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. Principal investigator

Judith Good – MSc 1993, AI PhD 1999
Reader in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.  Director of the Interactive Systems Research Group, and of the Human Centred Technology Lab.

Professor Philippa Gardner (PhD 1992, Edinburgh)
Professor at Imperial College, London.

Professor Jane Hillston (FRSE, Prof, Univ Edinburgh)

Professor Mirella Lapata  (Prof, Univ Edinburgh)

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