Linda Y. Cureton

Linda Y. Cureton (born 1959 in Bethesda, Maryland) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of Muse Technologies, Inc. The Former NASA CIO, Ms. Curetonlaunched her new company in April 2013. Muse Technologies, Inc. will provide IT-Enabled Leadership, strategic planning, program management and information technology consulting to both private and government sector organizations. Ms. Cureton attended Washington, DC public schools and was in the very first graduating class of Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1977. In 1980, she graduated from Howard University with a BS in Mathematics. She later received a Master of Science degree and post-Masters advanced certificate in Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.Linda is well known as a strong leader and innovator.While CIO, she created the popular NASA CIO blog and continues to be a prolific blogger.She received significant recognition for being a pathfinder for other federal CIOs in professional use ofsocial media.

She has written several articles for Federal Computer Week, FedScoop, and Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is a monthly contributor to Information Week Government.She currently serves on advisory boards for: the Open Systems Software Institute, the Professional Capture Management Forum, and the DC Youth Orchestra Program. Some of her former professional affiliations have included the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Gartner Group Information Technology Executive Program, Women in Technology, American Council for Technology, Government Information Technology Executive Council and the Society for Information Management, Advanced Practices Council.She is the author of The Leadership Muse an educational and inspirational book that outlines lessons for today’s heroic leadership journey.

• Cureton, Linda Y. (2011). The Leadership Muse : Inspiration for the 21st Century Hero-Leader. Synergy Press. ISBN 9780980220957.
• Cureton, Linda (May–June 2010). "Innovation: There Is Something New Under the Sun". IT Professional. 12 (3): 54–56. doi:10.1109/MITP.2010.90. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
• Cureton, Linda; J.R. Kuttler (1999). "Eigenvalues of the Laplacian on regular polygons and polygons resulting from their dissection" (PDF). Journal of Sound and Vibration. 220 (1): 83–98. doi:10.1006/jsvi.1998.1919.

• 2008 IT Service Management Forum (ITSMF) Heritage Award
• 2009 InformationWeek Government CIO 50
• 2009 Washington Business Journal Women Who Mean Business
• 2011 Minority Enterprise Executive Council 50 Women of Influence and Power Award
• 2011 Federal Computer Week Fed 100
• 2011 Washingtonian Magazine Tech Titans
• 2011 Womensphere Global Leadership Award for Innovation
• 2012 National Urban League of Northern Virginia for Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
• 2012 Business Insider 25 Powerful Women Engineers