Anita K. Jones

Anita K. Jones
Anita K. Jones (1993)
Born	1942 (age 74–75) Houston, Texas
Nationality	USA
Alma mater	- Rice University (A.B. in Mathematics, 1964) - University of Texas, Austin (M.A. in English Literature, 1968) - Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1973)
Occupation	computer scientist, professor, government official
Known for	Director of Defense Research and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Defense
Spouse(s)	William Wulf
Website	www.cs.virginia.edu/people/faculty/jones.html

Anita K. Jones (born 1942) is an American computer scientist and former U.S. government official. She was Director, Defense Research and Engineering from 1993 to 1997.

Jones' father, a petroleum engineer, encouraged her to devote herself to something. He taught her to play chess, helped her on geometry problems, and on weekends took her and her younger brother fishing for catfish, red snapper, and trout on Galveston Bay. Jones' mother, who had trained as a ballerina and danced in several Hollywood films, taught her daughter a love of painting.

Anita graduated as valedictorian of her high school class in 1960.

Jones received an A.B. from Rice University in Mathematics in 1964, a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973.

She remained at Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor, with promotion to associate professor in 1978. With William A. Wulf, her husband, Jones was a founder and vice president of Tartan Laboratories, a compiler technology company, in 1981. She joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1989, where she is University Professor emerita (As of 2011^[update]).

Jones became the Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense in June 1993, a position in which she was responsible for the management of the science and technology program. Her responsibilities included the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and oversight of the Department of Defense laboratories, as well as being the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for defense-related scientific and technical matters. She returned to the University of Virginia in 1997.