Diane Pozefsky

Diane P. Pozefsky is a research professor at the University of North Carolina in the department of Computer Science, and was awarded the Women in Technology International 2011 Hall of Fame Award for contributions to the fields of Science and Technology. She earned an AB in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1972 and her PhD from the Department of Computer Science at UNC in 1979. She joined IBM Corporation in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1979 as a member of the Communication Systems Architecture Department, working in the specification and application of the Systems Network Architecture (SNA), and worked for IBM for 25 years; she was named an IBM Fellow in 1994 in recognition of her work on the APPN and AnyNet architectures and development. She was tasked with the network and application design for the 1998 and 2000 Olympics, including deploying the network at the Nagano Olympics. After retiring from IBM in June 2004 she returned to UNC, where she advocates for the inclusion of women and underrepresented people in computer science.