Edda Sveinsdottir

[3] Sveinsdottir was born in 1936 in Reykjavik to Icelandic father, Professor Sveinn Bergsveinsson, and Danish mother, architect Anne Marie Østergaard.

[4] Sveinsdottir began studying mathematics and physics, with numerical analysis as her major, at Copenhagen University in 1958.

From 1965 to 1970 she was employed at the Department of Mathematics at Copenhagen University where she worked on the electronic calculator, GIER – Denmark's second ever computer.

[3] Sveinsdottir's field of research has focussed on computer-assisted tomography, a branch of medical technology which uses computers to develop equipment for the imaging of brain activity.

[4] In 1987, Sveinsdottir was made a professor of computer science at Roskilde University Center (RUC).