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Maureen Govern was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at AOL at the time of their search data release. The researcher who released the data and his supervisor were reportedly fired.Govern is a native of Evanston IL. She has a BS degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Western Illinois University and an MS degree in OperationsResearch from Stanford University. She began her career in 1978 as a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Naperville Illinois.