Stella Atkins

Stella Atkins is a professor emeritus in computing science at Simon Fraser University,[1] and one of the founding members of the Systers community for technical women in computing.[2] Her primary research interests are in medical computing and medical image display and analysis.[1]

Education

Atkins received a B.Sc. in chemistry from Nottingham University (1966).[1] She went on to work at the Shell Refining Company as a chemical engineer, where she performed simulations of oil refineries and oil flow, and developed her interest in computing.[3] Atkins later became a scientific computer programmer advisor at the University of Warwick [3] and received a M.Phil. in computer science from there in 1976.[1] In 1985, Atkins received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of British Columbia.[1]

gollark: Not really; it's exponential growth, sort of thing.
gollark: Or at least value; the value of 2G prizes does not reflect their rarity well.
gollark: I got offers of a gold+silver on my ND and those are around 2G prizes in rarity.
gollark: They probably will.
gollark: <@459753730846228483> The Fish of Suns does that.

References
  1. "Stella Atkins - Computing Science - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  2. "Founding Systers - AnitaB.org". AnitaB.org. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  3. "The Evolving Pattern that is Stella Atkins - November 2001 - Simon Fraser University". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2018-09-22.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.