Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk (March 1, 1963 – March 3, 2022) was an American computer scientist and computer science educator. She was Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Computer Science at

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, and co-chair of the

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of the

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Education

Danyluk earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

in 1984. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

in 1989. Her dissertation, ''Extraction and Use of Contextual Attributes for Theory Completion: An Integration of Explanation-Based and Similarity-Based Learning'', concerned

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

and was supervised by Kathleen McKeown.

Career

After working in industry for several years, Danyluk joined Williams College as an assistant professor in 1993. At Williams, she chaired the computer science department from 2005 to 2008, and the

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program from 2005 to 2006. She was acting dean of the faculty from 2009 to 2010. She was Dennis A. Meenan '54 Third Century Professor of Computer Science at Williams College from 2012 to 2018, and was given the Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professorship in 2018. She also worked at

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

as a visiting director and founding director of a master's program aimed at computer science students who studied other subjects as undergraduates. She was associated with Northeastern as a member of the advisory council of the Center for Inclusive Computing. Danyluk was a proponent of

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in lower-level computer science education. With Kim Bruce and Thomas Murtagh, she was the author of a textbook that follows this view, ''Java: An Eventful Approach'' (Prentice Hall, 2006).

Death

Andrea Danyluk, a resident of

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, died from pancreatic cancer on March 3, 2022, two days after her 59th birthday. She was survived by her husband, Andrew Danyluk, their two children, and her two siblings.

Recognition

The

gave Danyluk the 2022

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, posthumously.

References

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