Rose Dieng-Kuntz (1956–2008) was a Senegalese computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. She was the first African woman to enroll in the École polytechnique. Life and career Her area of specialization for her PhD was the specification of parallelism. She worked for the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics, where her research specialization was on the sharing of knowledge over the World Wide Web. She died in 2008 after a long illness. Her death received national media coverage. France's Minister of Higher Education and Research, Valérie Pécresse, expressed sadness, and released a statement announcing the death of Rose Dieng Kuntz: "France and the world of science have just lost a visionary mind and an immense talent". Her last research focused on knowledge management and the semantic Web. She was active in reaching out to students, and female students in particular, about her passion for science. In her words: Awards and distinctions Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2005 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2006. Publications (selected) (ed., in collaboration with Heinz Jürgen Müller), Computational conflicts : conflict modeling for distributed intelligent systems, 2000 Designing cooperative systems : the use of theories and models, 2000 (ed., in collaboration with Nada Mata), Knowledge management and organizational memories, 2002 (ed., in collaboration with Parisa Ghodous and Geilson Loureiro), Leading the Web in concurrent engineering : next generation concurrent engineering See also Bibliography Pierre Le Hir, « Rose Dieng. Un cerveau sans frontières », Le Monde, 12 janvier 2006 External links Portrait a profile of Rose Dieng-Kuntz on the Website of INRIA. Rose Dieng-Kuntz : savoir, mémoire et partage Hommage à Rose Dieng (avec article revue des anciens X polytechniciens), site Fondation C.Génial Biography of Rose Dieng-Kuntz References 1956 births 2008 deaths Senegalese women computer scientists Artificial intelligence researchers 20th-century women scientists Senegalese expatriates in France École Polytechnique alumni