Marian Petre

Marian Petre
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Alma materUniversity College London (PhD)
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science[1]
InstitutionsOpen University
ThesisFinding a basis for matching programming languages to programming tasks (1989)
Websitemcs.open.ac.uk/mp8

Marian Petre (born 1959) is a British computer scientist and Professor of Computing at the Open University and Director of its Centre for Research in Computing (CRC), known for her work on Visual Programming Environments, and co-developed the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ a b Marian Petre publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Scaife, Mike, and Yvonne Rogers. "External cognition: how do graphical representations work?." International journal of human-computer studies 45.2 (1996): 185-213.
  3. ^ Jacko, Julie A., ed. Human Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications. CRC press, 2012.