In the history of technology, Jennifer Tour Chayes is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jennifer Tour Chayes as American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1956).
Jennifer Tour Chayes was born at New York City in 1956. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Harvard University and Princeton University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Jennifer Tour Chayes is described as mathematician, physicist and computer scientist.
Her affiliations include University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington and Microsoft.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Her work was formally recognised with the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards, ACM Fellow and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Jennifer Tour Chayes is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington and Microsoft
- Educated at Harvard University, Princeton University and Wesleyan University
- Worked as mathematician, physicist and computer scientist
