Jean Scholtz

Jean Clarice Scholtz is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction, and particularly for developing the "Common Industry Format" (CIF) for usability test results while at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Education and career

Scholtz has a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa. She earned a master's degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology,[1] and completed her Ph.D. in 1989 in computer science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her dissertation was A study of transfer of skill between programming languages, and was jointly supervised by Susan Wiedenbeck and David A. Klarner.[1][2]

After completing her doctorate, Scholtz became a faculty member at Portland State University, and moved from there to Intel and then the National Institute of Standards and Technology. While at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she also served as a program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.[3] Scholtz retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2006, and became Chief Scientist for Visual Analytics at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.[1]

Recognition

SIGCHI gave Scholtz their Lifetime Service Award in 2015.[3] She was elected to the CHI Academy in 2018.[1]

gollark: https://ourworldindata.org/ has *great* comparison things. You should try it.
gollark: A lot of the time they even have properties you can plot on graphs, which is really fun.
gollark: Some of them have the same properties as each other, so you can compare them.
gollark: Things can be bad or good independent of whether worse or better things exist.
gollark: My view: You're both wrong. It's perfectly valid and possible to compare developed countries to developing ones in a lot of ways, but it doesn't particularly matter.

References
  1. 2018 SIGCHI Awards, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2018-10-27
  2. A study of transfer of skill between programming languages, Digital Commons, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, retrieved 2018-10-27
  3. 2015 SIGCHI Awards, ACM SIGCHI, retrieved 2018-10-27
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