Deborah Washington Brown

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Deborah Washington Brown (June 3, 1952 – June 5, 2020) was an American computer scientist and speech recognition researcher who worked at AT&T Bell Labs, and other companies for many years doing speech recognition research. She was the first black woman to earn a doctorate in computer science (then a part of their applied math program) at Harvard University in 1981 from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She was one of the first black female computer scientis