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Jill Zimmerman
Birth Name:	Jill Loraine Zimmerman
Birth Date:	23 March 1959
Workplaces:	Goucher College
Thesis Title:	Classes of Grzegorczyk-computable real numbers
Thesis Url:	https://search.proquest.com/docview/303836000
Thesis Year:	1990
Doctoral Advisor:	Marian Pour-El
Spouse:	^[1]

Jill Loraine Zimmerman (born 23 March 1959) is an American computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College. Since 2006, she has been the head of the Goucher Robotics Lab.

Early life and education

Zimmerman is from Naperville, Illinois.^[2] While in high school in 1975, Zimmerman and her father built a computer with four kilobytes of memory after being inspired by the January cover story of Popular Mechanics by Ed Roberts on building your own computers. Zimmerman later remarked that it was this same article that inspired Bill Gates.^{[3] [4] [5]}

In 1981, Zimmerman earned a Bachelor of Science with distinction in Computer and Informational Sciences with a minor in Mathematics from Purdue University. At graduation, she ranked among the top ten students in the School of Science and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. Upon enrolling in doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, Zimmerman was named a Corporate Associate Fellow.^[6] In 1990, she earned a doctorate in computer science, specializing in computational and recursion theory.^[7] Zimmerman completed her dissertation titled Classes of Grzegorczyk-Computable Real Numbers under her doctoral advisor Marian Pour-El.

Career

Zimmerman joined the faculty at Goucher College in 1990 as a visiting professor. She was the principal investigator for the "Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Scholarship Program" where she received $220,000 from the National Science Foundation to be conducted between January 2002 – December 2005.^[8] Zimmerman has run the Goucher Robotics Lab since 2006. She is the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College.

Personal life

In 1985, Zimmerman married computer science professor James Gil de Lamadrid.^[9]

Selected works

• de Lamadrid. James Gil. Zimmerman. Jill. July 1993. Avoidance of obstacles with unknown trajectories: locally optimal paths and path complexity, Part I. Robotica. Cambridge University Press. 11. 4. 299–308. 10.1017/S0263574700016556. 20347479 .
• de Lamadrid. James Gil. Zimmerman. Jill. September 1993. Avoidance of obstacles with unknown trajectories: locally optimal paths and path complexity, Part II. Robotica. Cambridge University Press. 11. 5. 403–412. 10.1017/S0263574700016957. 251234261 .
• de Lamadrid. James Gil. Zimmerman. Jill. October 2012. Core FOBS: A hybrid functional and object-oriented language. Computer Languages, Systems & Structures. 38. 3. 214–241. 10.1016/j.cl.2012.04.002.

Notes and References

1. Minnesota, Marriage Index, 1958-2001
2. News: Spring 1990 Commencement. 1990. University of Minnesota.
3. News: impromptu. Moiles. Gwendolyn. 2012-12-09. Goucher Quarterly. 2018-03-10. en. Issuu.
4. News: Ed Roberts, developer who inspired Bill Gates, dies. Daily Telegraph. 2010-04-01. 2018-03-10. en-GB. 0307-1235.
5. News: Ed Roberts: Pioneering electronics engineer who built the first widely. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ed-roberts-pioneering-electronics-engineer-who-built-the-first-widely-available-home-computer-1957204.html . June 8, 2022 . subscription . live. 2010-04-29. The Independent. 2018-03-10. en-GB.
6. News: Purdue grad named fellow. 1981-08-24. Journal and Courier. 2018-04-30. Lafayette, Indiana. en. Newspapers.com.
7. Web site: Jill Zimmerman. Goucher College. en. 2018-03-10.
8. Web site: Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Scholarship Program. National Science Foundation. 2018-03-10.
9. News: Elvira V. Gil de Lamadrid, 88, Superior died June 8, 2008. 2008-06-11. Superior Telegram. 2018-03-11. en.