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Karen Shipp
Karen Shipp (born 1952) is a Software developer who as spent more than 20 years of her life devoting herself to research.

Early life
Karen Shipp was born in the year of 1952 in a small suburb area called Bromley in London. Her father was a bank clerk, and a part-time fireman. Her mother was an artist, her mother continued her work as an artist till the age of 79. Her mother designed images on the tapestries. Shipp took an interest in her mothers work because it reminded her of pixels—the cells of the tapestry, it was like working on a computer. She attended Oxford University in her late teen years.

Her Life
She  graduated from Oxford University in 1974. In the mid-1980s, she returned to school and graduated from North London Polytechnic with the help of a government scholarship. She has worked at Open University, Milton Keynes, for most of her career since then. She began her career as a software engineer for educational resources, but she has worked as a researcher for the OU(organizational unit) systems division since 2000. She launched a study project with Magus Remus in 2002, which ended in the release of their book, Systems Thinkers, by Springer in 2009. The book is about significant developers of systems thinking and their work.

Shipp delivers an interview in which she describes her various occupations, including her time away from computers. It goes over her research interests in Java, Flash, and Systems in great depth. The interview comes to a close with a discussion of her plans for the future and how she sees the area evolve.

Education

 * 1974, Bachelors Degree in Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
 * 1985, Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, North London Polytechnic

Career

 * 1976-1980 Software Developer at a computing center
 * 1984-1995 Developing Educational Software for Open University
 * 2000- researcher for the OU Systems group
 * 2009- Publication of Systems Thinkers