majored in literature at Binghampton University, then worked for IBM as a system 

programmer in late 1960s. Her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1974 involved 

the work concerning presentation of the lives of Victorian women in English fiction of 

the nineteenth century.

            Murray's training at IBM allowed her to teach at MIT (since 1971), and then to 

begin designing interactive projects for advance computing environments since 1982.

As professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Information Design and

Technology Program of School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Murray

presently teaches at Georgia Tech. Before Murray taught at MIT; she is still involved in

several projects there.