Jeannette M. Wing is a Chinese American computer scientist who currently serves as Executive Vice President for Research at Columbia University, Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She has had a considerable impact on the field of computing and as you can see in the author column of Wing (2006) she has published 112 articles on computing with an average of 88 citations each.
Among her most notable publications are Wing (2006), in which Jeannette M. Wing gave a definition of computational thinking in March 2006 in the journal Communications of the ACM, the leading journal on computing in the United States. She was the first to define computational thinking, and the article was cited 9,124 times and downloaded 102,109 times, and Professor Zhou considers computational thinking to be a range of thinking activities that encompass the breadth of computer science, using the concepts underlying computer science to solve problems, design systems and understand human behavior. The use of computational thinking may have existed prior to her definition, but Ezan Zhou's qualitative definition of computational thinking in 2006 gave a concrete concept of computational thinking and summarized it in a way that completely opened a new conceptual thinking for the field of computer science. She argues that computational thinking does not only work in a single field, but that it affects everyone in all fields. This idea is now beginning to be popularized in early childhood education to foster computational thinking in young people and accelerating technological advances and huge social demands are forcing a re-examination of the most fundamental computational science issues. According to Google Scholar, Professor Zhou's current main topic is artificial intelligence.
There is no doubt that Professor Zhou's contribution to the field of computer science is evident to all, as she has never given up slacking on emerging issues in computing since she began publishing influential papers in 1979, and has a spirit of exploration, innovation and overcoming difficulties. Her spirit and attitude towards computer science is worthy of our respect and study.