Background
Wright, Margaret Hagen was born on February 18, 1944 in San Francisco, California, United States.
administrator computer scientist
Wright, Margaret Hagen was born on February 18, 1944 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Wright spent her childhood in Hanford, California, and Tucson, Arizona, where she attended high school. She developed an interest in mathematics at an early age and studied the subject at Stanford University, where she received a Bachelor of Surgery degree in Mathematics and an Master of Surgery in Computer Science. She then worked for several years at General Telephone and Electric Sylvania, after which she returned to Stanford to continue her study in computer science, obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy in 1976.
Research associate department operations research Stanford University, 1976—1981, senior research associate, 1981—1988. Member technical staff Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (formerly American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Laboratories), Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1988—2001, head science computing research department, 1997—2000. Silver professor computer science, chair department computer science Courant Institute of Mathematics Sciences, New York University, since 2001.
Member advisory committee, division math science National Science Foundation, 1991—1994, member advisory committee, Directorate Mathematics & Physical Sciences, 1994—1998, chairman, 1997—1998. Member science advisory committee Mathematics Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, 1996—2001. Emmy Noether lecturer Association Women in Mathematics, 2000.
Forsythe lecturer Stanford University, 2000. Chair advanced science computing advisory committee United States Department Energy, since 2000.
Fellow: Institute Operations Research & Management Sciences. Member: National Academy of Engineering, Society Industrial & Applied Mathematics (council member 1987-1989, president 1995-1996, board trustees since 2000), American Academy Arts & Sciences, American Mathematics Society (Distinguished Public Service award 2002), Mathematics Programming Society.