Maureen C. Stone

Maureen C. Stone is an American computer scientist specializing in color modeling. She has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and another master's degree from the California Institute of Technology, and she worked for many years at Xerox PARC. After leaving PARC she founded a consulting firm in the Seattle area in 1998, became an adjunct professor in the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, and joined Tableau Research in 2011, which she headed as senior director before retiring as a senior principal research scientist. She began working in computer graphics in the early 1970s as part of the PLATO project at the University of Illinois, is the author of the book A Field Guide to Digital Color, and has performed pioneering research on color management for digital printing. She was program chair for SIGGRAPH in 1987 and editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications from 2007 to 2010, and in 2020 she was listed in the IEEE Visualization Academy.