Mary Allen Wilkes belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Mary Allen Wilkes as American computer scientist.
Mary Allen Wilkes was born at Chicago in 1937. Her recorded nationality is United States. She studied at Harvard Law School and Wellesley College.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Her academic posts were held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University in St. Louis.
The recorded fields of work are operating system and system console.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Achievements
- Held posts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University in St. Louis
- Fields: operating system and system console
