Barbara Boucher Owens

Boucher Owens started her career at IBM in 1967 in the area of computer assisted instruction. She began her teaching career in 1970 at Brooklyn College as an instructor in Psychology and founded their Department of Computer Science in 1971, teaching there until 1977. She was an instructor of Computer Science at City University of New York (CUNY) in 1979. She has been a faculty member at Mercy College in Computer Science from 1982 to 1988. She became an associate professor at St. Edward's University in Computer Science in 1989 and was promoted to Professor of Computer Science in 1996. In 1999 she became an associate professor of Computer Science at Southwestern University, and retired as an emeritus Professor in 2012.

Boucher Owens is one of the co-founders of the Computing Educators Oral History Project.^[2]

• 2016: SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community^[3]
• 2012: ACM Distinguished Member^[4]