Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,099 times.
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Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. Keller and Irving C. Tang were the first two recipients of computer science doctorates.
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science · First American woman to receive a Ph.D. in computer science · computer scientist · university teacher · religious sister · mathematician · nun · Christian nun · also Mary Kenneth Keller, Sister Mary Kenneth, Sister Mary K. Keller, Mary K. Keller, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, BVM, Keller
Born 17 December 1913 · Died 10 January 1985 · Q11752
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,099 times.
Published “Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Managing Customer-Based Brand Equity” in Journal of Marketing — cited 24,437 times.
Died 1985-01-10.
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Keller declared "we have not fully used a computer as the greatest interdisciplinary tool that has been invented to date
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“we have not fully used a computer as the greatest interdisciplinary tool that has been invented to date.”
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Studied at University of Wisconsin–Madison, Doctor of Philosophy (1962–1965).
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Keller founded the computer science department at Clarke College (now Clarke University), a Catholic women's college founded by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa
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Where she worked with Thomas Kurtz, the father of the BASIC language, helping in its development
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And that of Master of Science in Mathematics and Physics in 1953, at DePaul University in Chicago
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And took her vows with that order in 1940, assuming the religious name Sister Mary Kenneth
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To John Adam Keller and Catherine Josephine (née Sullivan) Keller
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Born 1913-12-17.
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