Paula Birdwell Hawthorn was born on 1943 and is an American computer scientist.
25 Facts About Paula Hawthorn
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Paula Hawthorn is recognised as an expert and pioneer in database systems.
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Paula Hawthorn has founded organisations for women in computer science and created affirmative action programs to support students in the field.
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Paula Hawthorn's parents separated soon after she was born, so she moved around frequently as a child with stints in Oklahoma, California, Texas and Indiana.
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Paula Hawthorn received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Houston with the intention of training as a math teacher.
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Paula Hawthorn left the position when her children were born and later was interested in returning in a part-time capacity, but this was not permitted.
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Paula Hawthorn decided to return to school, and enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Houston.
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Paula Hawthorn's thesis was on the topic of relational database performance.
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Paula Hawthorn went on to work at Hewlett-Packard as a manager and then at a database startup Britton-Lee, where she became Vice President of Engineering.
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Paula Hawthorn worked on efficiency comparisons for different types of processors in database machines.
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Paula Hawthorn was hired by Informix, and then by Andromedia in 1997.
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Paula Hawthorn integrated Andromedia technology with Unicenter TNG and donated software systems to UC Berkeley.
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Paula Hawthorn has worked on various committees including the Lawler Award Committee and Advisory Panel on Professional Licensing in Software Engineering at the ACM.
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Paula Hawthorn was on the Organization Committee for SIGMOD 1987.
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Paula Hawthorn married her first husband at the start of her undergraduate degree.
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Paula Hawthorn met and married her second husband, Mike Ubell, during her Ph.
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Paula Hawthorn was involved in the search for Jim Gray, a computer scientist who went missing when sailing off the coast of California.
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Paula Hawthorn has a history of activism and advocacy, starting with civil rights protests in her undergrad days.
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Paula Hawthorn is an advocate for women in science and engineering.
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Paula Hawthorn started women's groups at Berkeley, LBNL and HP.
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Paula Hawthorn was the first president of Berkeley's Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering founded in 1979.
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Paula Hawthorn has worked on programs to introduce disadvantaged students to information technology opportunities.
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Paula Hawthorn is an advocate for affordable and accessible child care, particularly for student parents.
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Paula Hawthorn serves on the Oakland Community Policing Advisory Board.
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Paula Hawthorn sponsored a Rainforest Action Network project called REVEL: The Art of Activism.