Nancy Lynch | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 19, 1948 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn College MIT |
| Known for | Distributed systems |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (1997) Dijkstra Prize (2001, 2007) Member, National Academy of Engineering (2001) Van Wijngaarden Award (2006) IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (2010) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015) Knuth Prize (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Tufts University University of Southern California Florida International University Georgia Tech MIT |
| Thesis | Relativization of the Theory of Computational Complexity (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert R. Meyer |
| Doctoral students | Cal Newport George Varghese |
Nancy Ann Lynch (born January 19, 1948)[1] is a computer scientist affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the "Theory of Distributed Systems" research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.