Rose Dieng-Kuntz
Senegalese computer scientist (1956–2008)
Rose Dieng-Kuntz (March 27, 1956 – June 30, 2008) was a Senegalese computer scientist, who moved to France in 1976. She undertook significant research, becoming a major contributor to knowledge sharing and the semantic web, immediately after the availability of the World Wide Web. Winner of the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, she was the first African woman to enroll in the celebrated French École polytechnique and her name is to be added to the Eiffel Tower.
Early life and education
Rose Sophie Fatima Dieng-Kuntz was born on March 27, 1956, in Dakar, Senegal. Raised in a family of seven children, she excelled in her studies at Van Vollenhoven High School in Dakar, where she won several first prizes in the Senegalese General Competition and in 1972 passed her baccalauréat with highest honors.
In 1976, at the age of 20, she became the first African woman admitted to the École polytechnique in France. She continued her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (now Télécom Paris), where she earned an engineering degree in 1980. Dieng-Kuntz also completed a DEA (diploma of advanced studies) in computer science, followed by a PhD on the specification of parallelism at the University of Paris-Sud.
Career
Her professional career began in 1985 at INRIA (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics, where her research specialisation was on the sharing of knowledge over the World Wide Web.
In 1992, she became only the second woman to lead a research project at INRIA as scientific leader of the ACACIA research unit at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, a technology park near Nice in the south of France.
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