This winter, we are celebrating the festive season by honouring 25 amazing women in STEM, some of which you might not know of!
Dr Rose Dieng-Kuntz
Computer scientist
1956 – 30 Jun 2008
Senegal/France
Rose Dieng-Kuntz was the first black African woman to be admitted to France’s École Polytechnique. She was a senior research scientist at INRIA, where she led a team exploring online knowledge acquisition, the semantic web, and artificial intelligence, just a few years after the web was launched. She was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur in 2006.
For more on Dr Rose Dieng-Kuntz:
- http://www.africansuccess.org/visuFiche.php?id=155&lang=en
- https://www.surlatoile.com/WomenInScience/rose-dieng-kuntz/
- http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20080717161931579
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Dieng-Kuntz
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