Background
Griffeth, Nancy Davis was born on October 26, 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Mary McClintock and David McClure Davis.
Griffeth, Nancy Davis was born on October 26, 1945 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Mary McClintock and David McClure Davis.
She received a bachelor"s degree from Harvard University, a master"s degree from Michigan State University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago.
In 2014, she is a professor at Lehman College of The City University of New York and is modelling biological systems in computational biology. Griffeth did seminal work in the feature interaction problem as a founding organizer of the feature interaction workshops and co-author of one of the most cited papers in feature interactions, "A Feature Interaction Benchmark for Indiana and Beyond." The feature interaction problem is a software problem that arises when one feature interacts with another in such a way that it changes what the feature does. This can cause serious issues for developers and users of the software.
The problem was first documented as features were added to telecommunications systems
If new features on a telecommunications network were either undetected or unwanted, they could cause confusion and dissatisfaction among customers if not handled properly. Griffeth also researched the related problem of how to test networks to see how well they work together, called "interoperability".
She worked at the Next Generation Networking Laboratory at Lucent Technologies where she designed and built tools to test interoperability of Voice-over-Intellectual Property networks, which included conformance testing for MeGaCo media gateways and controllers. Foreign this purpose, she also researched how to model protocols.
In addition, she studied virtual node layers regarding Mobile Ad Hoc Networks or MANETs.
In the 1990s, she patented methods to protect databases against hackers trying to deduce confidential attributes. Her research has included distributed databases, simulations, concurrency and recovery controls, database design issues, performance modeling, and other issues. From 2010-2014 Griffeth directed workshops on computational biology, funded by the National Science Foundation Expedition in Computing "Computational Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems." Seventy-eight undergraduate students were trained in computational biology methods and tools and executed research projects on atrial fibrillation and pancreatic cancer.
Canvass chair Unitarian Church Summit, New Jersey, 2000—2001. Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association Computing Machinery.
Married William Francis Griffeth, December 16, 1973. Children: Stephen Price, Valerie Ewing.