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Duy-Loan T. Le (born 1962, Vietnam) is an engineer and the first woman and Asian elected as a Texas Instruments Senior Fellow.〔"Profile: Duy-Loan Le", Keynote speakers, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery, 2010〕 ==Early life== Born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, in 1962 to a labor-class family,〔Nguyen, Cuong Quoc, ("Vietnamese Defies Odds to Become A Top Woman in Technology" ), ''NHA Magazine'', Aug 10, 2005 (Pacific News Article on Duy-Loan's Achievements) (archived 2008)〕 Duy-Loan Le fled to the U.S. without her father and a family of nine in 1975, eventually settling in Houston. Her family joined her in the U.S. few years later. Although Loan knew no English when she arrived, she mastered the language fast enough to graduate from Alief Hastings High School at 16 as Valedictorian of her class of 335 students. In 1976, she received her first recognition in the US as 'Citizen of the Month' from Kiwanis International Club. In 1981, The Houston Chronicle featured her as 'Scholastic Wonder'; she also received commendation from The Office of The Ambassador of The Royal Netherlands for her scholastic achievement and her humanitarian effort in fund raising to aid the Vietnamese refugees. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lê Duy Loan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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