Barbara Simons

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Barbara Ann Bluestein Simons (Bluestein)

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Birthplace: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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Daughter of Richard Nathan Bluestein and Private
Ex-wife of Jim Simons
Mother of Paul Simons; Private; Private; Nicholas Simons and Private
Sister of Private

Occupation: Computer scientist
Managed by: Lynn Berger
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About Barbara Simons

Barbara Simons is an American computer scientist and the former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and spent her early career working as an IBM researcher. She is the founder and former co-chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council. Her main areas of research are compiler optimization, scheduling theory and algorithm analysis and design.

Simons has worked for technology regulation since 2002, where she advocates for the end of electronic voting. She subsequently serves as the chairperson of the Verified Voting Foundation and coauthored a book on the flaws of electronic voting entitled Broken Ballots, with Douglas W. Jones.

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Barbara Simons's Timeline

1941
January 26, 1941
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1962
June 20, 1962
1978
1978