Rose Dieng-Kuntz (1956–2008
) was a Senegalese
computer scientist
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specializing in
artificial intelligence
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. She was the first African woman to enroll in the
École polytechnique
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
.
Life and career
Her area of specialization for her PhD was the specification of parallelism. She worked for the
(INRIA) in
France
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, a French national research institution focusing on
computer science
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,
control theory
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and
applied mathematics
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, where her research specialization was on the sharing of knowledge over the
World Wide Web
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Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
.
She died in 2008 after a long illness. Her death received national media coverage. France's Minister of Higher Education and Research,
Valérie Pécresse
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, expressed sadness, and released a statement announcing the death of Rose Dieng Kuntz: "France and the world of science have just lost a visionary mind and an immense talent".
Her last research focused on knowledge management and the semantic Web. She was active in reaching out to students, and female students in particular, about her passion for science. In her words:
Awards and distinctions
*
Irène Joliot-Curie Prize
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in 2005
* Chevalier de la
Légion d’Honneur
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in 2006.
Publications (selected)
* (ed., in collaboration with Heinz Jürgen Müller), ''Computational conflicts : conflict modeling for distributed intelligent systems'', 2000
* ''Designing cooperative systems : the use of theories and models'', 2000
* (ed., in collaboration with Nada Mata), ''Knowledge management and organizational memories'', 2002
* (ed., in collaboration with Parisa Ghodous and Geilson Loureiro), ''Leading the Web in concurrent engineering : next generation concurrent engineering''
See also
Bibliography
* Pierre Le Hir, « Rose Dieng. Un cerveau sans frontières », ''Le Monde'', 12 janvier 2006
External links
*
Portraita profile of Rose Dieng-Kuntz on the Website of INRIA.
*
Rose Dieng-Kuntz : savoir, mémoire et partage*
Hommageà Rose Dieng (avec article revue des anciens X polytechniciens), site Fondation C.Génial
*
Biography of Rose Dieng-Kuntz
References
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1956 births
2008 deaths
Senegalese women computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
20th-century women scientists
Senegalese expatriates in France
École Polytechnique alumni