Biography

Margaret Anne Schlosser Wu was born to Aloys Joseph Schlosser and Beatrice Rose (Kubal) Schlosser on April 11, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois. Schlosser received a B.S. in Math from Illinois Institute of Technology; M.S. in Math from Northwestern University; and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Iowa (UI). She began her career in computer programming in the late 1950s and worked for several years at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and Annapolis, MD. She moved to Iowa following her marriage to Shih-Yen Wu in 1967. Wu completed her Ph.D. while raising two young children, Jennifer and Gregory, and working as a consultant-programmer at UI’s Bioengineering Resource Facility. She went on to work at UI as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Sciences for over a decade, beginning in 1979. Wu played an important role in establishing the Management Information Systems Association (MISA) at UI and promoting and advising for the MIS major. Wu published several articles and books in the field over the course of her career. Following retirement in the early 1990s, she resided in several locations, including Irvine, CA, Tuczon, AZ, and St. Louis, MO.

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