Marianne Southall Winslett is a professor emerita of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, specializing in databases.[1] She is known for her "possible models" approach to belief revision.[2]
Winslett earned her Ph.D. in 1986 from Stanford University under the supervision of Gio Wiederhold.[3] She joined the UIUC faculty in 1987.[4]
In 2006 she was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to information management and security".[5] In 2012 she won the SIGMOD Contributions Award for her efforts to document the biographies of notable database pioneers.[6]