Danette Allen
Bio:
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Danette Allen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary research interest is tracking technologies but her interests also include hardware and software for man-machine interaction and virtual environments. Allen graduated from North Carolina State University with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in 1988 and 1989. She received her Master’s Diploma in Business Administration from Manchester Business School, U.K. in 1990. In 1997, she received an M.E. in computer engineering from Old Dominion University. Allen began working at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) in Hampton, Virginia in 1991 where she is currently employed. She is a recipient of NASA’s Silver Snoopy award, the astronauts’ award for outstanding performance in flight safety and mission success. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association of Computing Machinery.