Joyce Currie Little

Joyce Currie Little, who lived from 20 January 1934 to 1 October 2023, was an American computer scientist, engineer and educator, professor and chairperson of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. She received a BS in mathematics education from Northeast Louisiana University in 1957, an MS in applied mathematics from San Diego State University in 1963 and a PhD in educational administration for computing services from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1984. She first worked in the aerospace industry as a computational test engineer, developing programs to analyze wind tunnel data for Convair Aircraft Corporation, then taught statistics and managed a computer centre at Goucher College, became chairperson of the Computer and Information Systems Department at the Community College of Baltimore in 1967 and moved to Towson University in 1981. She received the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 1992 and the SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community, and her research interests included metrics and quality assurance in software engineering and cyber-ethics.