Pioneers: Interview Maureen Stone

Maureen C. Stone is an American computer scientist, specializing in color modeling. Stone 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. She worked for many years at Xerox PARC. After leaving PARC, she founded a consulting firm in the Seattle, Washington area in 1998, and became is an adjunct professor in the School for Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She joined Tableau Research in 2011 and headed the company as its senior director before retiring as a senior principal research scientist there. Stone was program chair for SIGGRAPH in 1987, and editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications from 2007 to 2010. (Wikipedia)