Marion Créhange
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14 November 1937
(aged 84)Marion Créhange | |
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| Born | Marion Henriette Caen 14 November 1937 |
| Died | 28 March 2022 (aged 84) |
| Resting place | Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy |
| Education | licentiate, doctorate |
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| Fields | Computer science |
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| Doctoral advisor | Claude Pair, Jean Legras |
Marion Créhange (born Marion Caen; 14 November 1937 – 28 March 2022) was a French computer scientist. She was one of the first persons in France to get a PhD in Computer Science in 1961.[1][2][3][4]
A pioneer of computer science at the University of Nancy, she was one of the first to write a PhD in computer science in France in 1961, under the direction of Jean Legras. The title of her thesis is Structure du code de programmation, which deals with the definition and realization of a macro-assembler and a programming tool.
Appointed professor in 1976, she participated in the foundation of the teaching and research unit (UER) of mathematics and computer science at the University Nancy-I. She then turned to the design of database query languages and founded the Exprim (EXPert pour la Recherche d'IMages) research team. She became a member of the Académie de Stanislas in 2017.
Throughout her career, Marion Créhange has been committed to showing the reciprocal contributions between computer science and humanities. She advocates a computer science that promotes imagination and creation.
Her archives were deposited at the end of 2019 at the Henri-Poincaré archives of the University of Lorraine.