[3] Margaret Burnett is still working as a professor despite the fact that she has reached the full retirement age in the US given that she is older than 75 years old.
She studied at Miami University of Ohio from 1967 to 1970, brought there in part by their newly established program in computer science but eventually majoring in mathematics.
After graduating, she became a software engineer for Procter & Gamble, the first women hired in a management position at their Ivorydale factory and research center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She left soon after, following her husband to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she started her own business, and then to Lawrence, Kansas.
[3] Burnett was also given the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Technical Leadership in 2023.