The HistoryMakers video oral history with Valerie Taylor.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 35 min., 26 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337120
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor
Other authors / contributors:Taylor, Valerie Elaine, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew P., director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded College Station, Texas 2012 August 14.
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Summary:Computer science and engineering professor Valerie E. Taylor was born on May 24, 1963. She attended Purdue University where she received her B.S. degree in computer and electrical engineering in 1985 and her M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1986. She continued her education at the University of California, Berkeley where she received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 1991. After graduating, Taylor became an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University. She was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 2002. In 2003, Taylor transferred to Texas A&M University where she was named head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as well as the Stewart & Stevenson Professor. Since 2004, Taylor was the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research interests were in high performance computing.