Irene Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW).

[4] She attended Hunter College High School before earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT.

In 1975, Greif became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT;[2][5] in her dissertation of that year, she published the first operational actor model.

In 1984, Greif and Paul Cashman coined the term "Computer Supported Cooperative Work" and the initials, CSCW, at an interdisciplinary workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[15] Greif is married to Albert R. Meyer, the Hitachi America Professor of Computer Science at MIT.