Carol Dianne Briggs Martin is an American

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, former Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at

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and first Senior Faculty Fellow of the North Carolina (NC) Study Center. She currently teaches at the

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(UNC) Department of Computer Science and the School of Information and Library Sciences.

Biography

Martin attended the

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, where as a sophomore in 1959 she became one of the first students to attend the Berg Science Seminars.. She then moved to Maryland, where she graduated from the

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and

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in 1965 from

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(now McDaniel College). In the 1960s, she was a programmer for IBM that worked on the Apollo space project.Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs to Retire
retrieved 2019-03-16 She worked on the

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mission which was the first mission to put a man on the

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and was part of Mission Control for

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. Martin returned to school for a master's degree in computer science in 1972 from the

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. She joined the George Washington University faculty in 1983 as a computer science instructor, earned an Ed.D. in teacher education in 1987 from GWU, and was promoted to full professor in 1998. She was a program director at the

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from 1998 to 2000, chief policy officer at

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from 2000 to 2001, and chair of the GWU computer science department from 2002 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she took a leave of absence from GWU as Dean of the College of Information Systems at

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.Faculty profile
George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, retrieved 2015-06-13. Martin has been a member of the

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board of trustees, and presented the keynote address at McDaniel's 1994 homecoming. Her husband, David H. Martin (1939–2014) directed the

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from 1983 to 1987.

Awards

* In 1999 she became a

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of the

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"for extraordinary leadership and innovation in computer science education and for service to ACM and the profession." *In 2005, she was given the

Ada Lovelace Award The Ada Lovelace Award is given in honor of the English mathematician and computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, by the Association for Women in Computing. Founded in 1981, as the ''Service Award'', which was given to Thelma Estrin, it was named the ...

for her accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.

References

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