Background
Lynch, Nancy Ann was born on January 19, 1948 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Roland David and Marie Catherine (Adinolfi) Evraets.
university professor computer scientist
Lynch, Nancy Ann was born on January 19, 1948 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Roland David and Marie Catherine (Adinolfi) Evraets.
Bachelor of Science, Brooklyn College, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972.
She is the Nippon Electric Corporation Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She is the author of numerous research articles about distributed algorithms and impossibility results, and about formal modeling and validation of distributed systems (see, eg, input/output automaton). She is the author of the graduate textbook "Distributed Algorithms".
Lynch was born in Brooklyn, and her academic training was in mathematics, at Brooklyn College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1972 under the supervision of Albert R. Meyer.
She served on the math and computer science faculty at several other universities, including Tufts University, the University of Southern California and Georgia Technical, prior to joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1982. Since then, she has been working on applying mathematics to the tasks of understanding and constructing complex distributed systems
1997: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
2001: Dijkstra Prize
2001: National Academy of Engineering
2006: Van Wijngaarden Award
2007: Knuth Prize
2007: Dijkstra Prize
2010: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Emanuel R. Piore Award
2012: Athena Lecturer.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow.
Married Dennis Christopher Lynch, June 14, 1969. Children: Patrick, Kathleen (deceased), Mary.