Edda Sveinsdottir

Edda Sveinsdottir (9 April 1936 – 3 April 2022) was an Icelandic-Danish computer scientist, inventor, and professor. She is considered to be the first female Danish computer scientist and was the first (and currently only) female head of department at University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science.

Early life Sveinsdottir was born in 1936 in Reykjavik to Icelandic father, Professor Sveinn Bergsveinsson, and Danish mother, architect Anne Marie Østergaard. Sveinsdottir's parents divorced when she was three years old, and she lived with her mother, grandmother, and three aunts in Denmark, continuing to live much of her life in Denmark. ), making her one of the subject's early pioneers.