Each month, we ask Senior Technical Women to share their stories and what they have learned. This issue’s Senior Technical Woman Profile features Tracy Camp, Professor of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines.
Tracy Camp is a Professor of computer science at the Colorado School of Mines. She is the Founder and Director of the Toilers, an active ad hoc networks research group. Her current research interests include the credibility of ad hoc network simulation studies and the use wireless sensor networks in geosystems. Her articles have been cited over 2,500 times (as of June 2008).
Dr. Camp has received 19 grants from the National Science Foundation. This funding has produced 12 software packages that have been requested from (and shared with) more than 1400 researchers in 69 countries (as of December 2009). Dr. Camp is an ACM Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Senior Member, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In December 2007, Dr. Camp received the Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award at the Colorado School of Mines, an award that has only been given five times between 1998-2007. Dr. Camp takes great pleasure in her involvement with CRA-W, NCWIT, N2Women, and ACM-W.
Dr. Camp shares her life with Max (born in 2000), Emma (born in 2003), her husband (Glen), and four pets (three cats Scully/Sunset/Sparkle and dog Jessie). All eight of them are vegetarians who tremendously enjoy living in the foothills of the Rockies.