Christiane Floyd

Christiane Floyd
Floyd speaking at a conference at the HTW Berlin on 31 March 2015
Born
Christiane Riedl

(1943-04-26) 26 April 1943 (age 81)
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
SpousesRobert W. Floyd
Peter Naur
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Hamburg
Technische Universität Berlin
Softlab
Stanford University
Siemens
Thesis Radikale für Fastmoduln, Fastringe und Kompositionsringe  (1966)
Doctoral advisorWilfried Nöbauer

Christiane Floyd (née Riedl; born 26 April 1943) is an Austrian computer scientist. In 1978, she accomplished becoming the very first female professor of computer science in Germany, and was a pioneer of evolutionary participatory software design—a precursor to open-source software development.[1]

  1. ^ Thumfart, Johannes (29 March 2011). "Christiane Floyd: Emanzipation durch Computer". Die Zeit. Retrieved 4 January 2016. (in German)

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