Spouse(s) Keith Golden Name Ellen Spertus | Books App Inventor 2 | |
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Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (1990), master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1992), Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1998) Occupation Computer scientist, professor Known for App Inventor for Android, leasing a General Motors EV1 Awards "Sexiest Geek Alive", 2001 Role Computer science researcher Education New Trier High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Employer Microsoft Corporation, Mills College, Google Similar Hal Abelson, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page Profiles | ||
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Ellen Spertus is a Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, Oakland, California, United States, and a former senior research scientist at Google.
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Spertus grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School. At MIT she received a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (1990), a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1992), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1998). She spent several summers between terms working for Microsoft.
Spertus has written articles treating both technical and social subjects, often combining the two. She was profiled in a 1993 New York Times article about "women who might change the face of the computer industry" and in a follow-up article in 2003. In 2001 she was named "The Sexiest Geek Alive".
While at Google, Spertus spent her time at Google working on App Inventor for Android, a block based development platform with a graphical user interface that lets developers and amateurs alike create applications for Android. In May 2011, O'Reilly Media published App Inventor, which Spertus co-authored with David Wolber, Hal Abelson, and Liz Looney.
Spertus was a lessee of one of the approximately 1,000 General Motors EV1s. She is married to computer scientist Keith Golden.