Carol Dianne Briggs Martin is an American

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, former Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at

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and first Senior Faculty Fellow of the North Carolina (NC) Study Center. She currently teaches at the

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(UNC) Department of Computer Science and the School of Information and Library Sciences.

Biography

Martin attended the

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, where as a sophomore in 1959 she became one of the first students to attend the

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.. She then moved to Maryland, where she graduated from the

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and

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in 1965 from

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(now McDaniel College). In the 1960s, she was a programmer for IBM that worked on the Apollo space project.Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs to Retire
retrieved 2019-03-16 She worked on the

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mission which was the first mission to put a man on the

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and was part of Mission Control for

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. Martin returned to school for a master's degree in computer science in 1972 from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

. 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

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from 1998 to 2000, chief policy officer at

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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 Zayed University (ZU; ar, جامعة زايد) is a public university based in the United Arab Emirates. It was established in 1998. It is one of the three government-sponsored higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates. It is ...

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.Faculty profile
George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, retrieved 2015-06-13. Martin has been a member of the

McDaniel College McDaniel College is a private college in Westminster, Maryland. Established in 1867, it was known as Western Maryland College until 2002 when it was renamed McDaniel College in honor of an alumnus who gave a lifetime of service to the college. ...

board of trustees, and presented the keynote address at McDaniel's 1994 homecoming. Her husband, David H. Martin (1939–2014) directed the

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from 1983 to 1987.

Awards

* In 1999 she became a

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of the

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"for extraordinary leadership and innovation in computer science education and for service to ACM and the profession." *In 2005, she was given the Ada Lovelace Award for her accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.

References

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