Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum, a pioneering mathematician who transformed computation theory beyond discrete mathematics, founded the Association for Women in Mathematics and has championed diversity in computer science for five decades. Her insights on real-number computation have profoundly influenced modern machine learning algorithms. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Mathematical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. On the entrepreneurial side, in 2005, Lenore founded Project Olympus, an innovation center in the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, with the explicit aim of keeping CMU talent in Pittsburgh. Olympus has since been a catalyst for the burgeoning Pittsburgh high-tech start-up community.