- Nancy Lynch
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Nancy Ann Lynch (born January 19, 1948, Brooklyn)[1] is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
She is the author of numerous research articles about distributed algorithms and impossibility results, and about formal modeling and validation of distributed systems. She is the author of the graduate textbook "Distributed Algorithms". She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Fellow.
Lynch's academic training was in mathematics, at Brooklyn College and MIT, where she received her Ph.D. in 1972.[2] She served on the math and computer science faculty at several other universities, including Tufts University, the University of Southern California and Georgia Tech, prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1982. Since then, she has been working on applying mathematics to the tasks of understanding and constructing complex distributed systems.
Recognition
- 2001: Dijkstra Prize
- 2001: National Academy of Engineering[3]
- 2006: Van Wijngaarden Award
- 2007: Knuth Prize
- 2007: Dijkstra Prize
- 2010: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award[4]
References
- ^ Who's who of American women. Marquis Who's Who, 1973. p. 587.
- ^ Nancy Lynch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Nancy A. Lynch". NAE. http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/28957.aspx. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
- ^ "IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/piore_rl.pdf. Retrieved December 31, 2010.
External links
- Nancy Lynch's home page at MIT
- Works by or about Nancy Lynch in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- "Nancy Lynch Celebration: Sixty and Beyond". http://www.lynchcelebration.org/. A series of invited lectures at PODC 2008 and CONCUR 2008.
Knuth Prize laureates Yao (1996) · Valiant (1997) · Lovász (1999) · Ullman (2000) · Papadimitriou (2002) · Ajtai (2003) · Yannakakis (2005) · Lynch (2007) · Strassen (2008) · Johnson (2010) · Kannan (2011)
Categories:- American computer scientists
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Researchers in distributed computing
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Georgia Institute of Technology faculty
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Women computer scientists
- Knuth Prize laureates
- Dijkstra Prize laureates
- American academic biography stubs
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