C. Dianne Martin

Carol Dianne Briggs Martin is an American computer scientist, former Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at George Washington University and first Senior Faculty Fellow of the North Carolina (NC) Study Center. She currently teaches at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Computer Science and the School of Information and Library Sciences.

Biography Martin attended the Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts, where as a sophomore in 1959 she became one of the first students to attend the Berg Science Seminars. She then moved to Maryland, where she graduated from the Oxon Hill High School in 1961. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics education in 1965 from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). In the 1960s, she was a programmer for IBM that worked on the Apollo space project. She worked on the Apollo 11 mission which was the first mission to put a man on the moon and was part of Mission Control for Apollo 8.

Martin has been a member of the McDaniel College board of trustees, and presented the keynote address at McDaniel's 1994 homecoming.

Her husband, David H. Martin (1939–2014) directed the United States Office of Government Ethics from 1983 to 1987.

Awards In 1999 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for extraordinary leadership and innovation in computer science education and for service to ACM and the profession." In 2005, she was given the Ada Lovelace Award for her accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.