C. Dianne Martin

Carol Dianne Briggs Martin is an American computer scientist, the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at George Washington University.[1]

Martin attended the Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts, where as a sophomore in 1959 she became one of the first students to attend the Berg Science Seminars.[2] She then moved to Maryland, where she graduated from the Oxon Hill High School in 1961.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics education in 1965 from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), and became a computer programmer for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, the first to put a man on the moon.[2]

Martin returned to school for a master's degree in computer science in 1972 from the University of Maryland, College Park.[4] 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 National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2000, chief policy officer at GeoTrust 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 Zayed University in Dubai.[4]

Martin has been a member of the McDaniel College board of trustees, and presented the keynote address at McDaniel's 1994 homecoming.[5] In 1999 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for extraordinary leadership and innovation in computer science education and for service to ACM and the profession."[6]

Her husband, David H. Martin (1939–2014) directed the United States Office of Government Ethics from 1983 to 1987.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Staff profile, Office of the Provost, George Washington University, retrieved 2015-06-13.
  2. 1 2 Welsh, Lisa D. (January 10, 2009), "Science Seminar marks 50th year", Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
  3. ↑ Oxon Hill High School Class of 1961 alumni listing, retrieved 2015-06-13.
  4. 1 2 Faculty profile, George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, retrieved 2015-06-13.
  5. ↑ "Computer experts gather for WMC homecoming", Baltimore Sun, February 7, 1994.
  6. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2015-06-13.
  7. ↑ Langer, Emily (April 10, 2014), "David H. Martin, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, dies at 74", Washington Post.
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