Christiane Floyd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Christiane Floyd

Austrian computer scientist

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1943

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Christiane Floyd

  • Christiane Floyd (nĂ©e Riedl; born 26 April 1943) is an Austrian computer scientist.
  • In 1978, she became the first female professor of computer science in Germany, and was a pioneer of evolutionary participatory software design—a precursor to open-source software development.Born Christiane Riedl, she began her career studying mathematics at the University of Vienna, where she completed her PhD in 1966.
  • From 1966 to 1968, she worked as a systems programmer using an ALGOL 60 compiler at Siemens in Munich, Germany.
  • From 1968 to 1973, she worked at the computer science department of Stanford University in the United States as a research associate and part-time lecturer.In 1973, she joined the Munich software development company Softlab, where she worked as a senior consultant and was involved in the development and demonstration of Maestro I, the first integrated development environment for software.In 1978, Floyd became a full professor of software engineering at the Technical University of Berlin—the first woman to be a professor in the field of computer science in Germany.
  • From 1991, she was head of the software engineering group at the University of Hamburg.
  • Floyd and her group produced one of the first conceptual contributions to participatory design methods with the STEPS process model (Software Technology for Evolutionary Participatory Systems development).
  • Floyd formally retired and became a professor emerita at Hamburg in 2008.
  • She has since been involved with the Vienna University of Technology WIT project (Wissenschaftlerinnenkolleg Internettechnologien; Women's Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies), which offers a specialised PhD program for women in the computer science field.
  • Floyd was granted an honorary professorship at TU Wien on 26 January 2012.She was married to Robert W.
  • Floyd and Peter Naur—both computer scientists.

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