Jean Bacon

Jean Bacon (born 1942) is a British emeritus professor of distributed systems at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where she co-headed the Opera Research Group from its founding in the 1990s. Previously, she taught at Hatfield Technical College where, in the 1970s, she was involved in the design of one of the earliest computer science degree programs offered in the United Kingdom. Bacon retired from her faculty position at Cambridge in 2010 but has continued to work on Opera projects related to distributed systems and security in cloud computing. There she was a co-leader of the Opera Research Group since its founding in the 1990s. and served two terms on the IEEE Board of Governors from 2002–04 and 2005–07.

Personal life Bacon has one son, born in 1976. She is also an artist and has exhibited paintings.