Marian Petre

Marian Petre
Born1959 (age 6566)
Alma materUniversity College London (PhD)
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsOpen University
ThesisFinding a basis for matching programming languages to programming tasks (1989)
Websitemcs.open.ac.uk/mp8

Marian Petre (born 1959) is a British computer scientist and Professor of Computing at the Open University and Director of its Centre for Research in Computing (CRC), known for her work on Visual Programming Environments, and co-developed the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations.