Mary Kenneth Keller

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was a computer scientist, educator, and Catholic religious sister who became one of the first women in the United States to earn a doctorate in computer science. She participated in early computing work at Dartmouth and later founded the computer science department at Clarke College in Iowa. Keller promoted the use of computers in education and argued that computing should be accessible beyond specialist technical communities. Her career helped establish computer science as an academic discipline open to new generations of students.