Karen Petrie
| Karen Elizabeth Jefferson Petrie | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2, 1980 |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Dundee |
| Alma mater | University of St Andrews, University of Huddersfield, University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Constraint Programming, Search and Symmetry (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Barbara Smith |
Karen Petrie is a British computer scientist specialising in the area of constraints programming. She was awarded young IT practitioner of the year by the British Computer Society (BCS)[1] in 2004, for work she carried out whilst on placement at NASA. She is now on the staff of the University of Dundee.[2]
She is a women in computing activist, who served as chair of BCSWomen from 2008-2011, and organised many events for women in computing during this period.[3] Karen is responsible for an argument about sexist behaviour in gender-imbalanced groups called "The Petrie Multiplier" [4] which states that with a gender ratio of 1:r, women will receive r2 times as many sexist remarks as men. Proving tight upper and lower bounds remains an open question.
References
- ↑ http://www.bcs.org/category/7567
- ↑ Dr Karen Petrie, School of Computing, University of Dundee.
- ↑ http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/21576
- ↑ http://iangent.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html