Susan L. Graham

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Susan L. Graham

Susan Lois Graham (born September 16, 1942 in Cleveland (Ohio) ) is an American computer scientist. She mainly deals with programming languages ​​and environments for their development.

Life

Graham studied mathematics at Harvard University (Bachelor in 1964) and at Stanford University , where she received her master’s degree in 1966 and her doctorate in 1971 with David Gries ( Precedence Languages ​​and Bounded Right Context Languages ). She has also been at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University since 1969 . In 1971 she became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley , where she had been an associate professor since 1976 and a full professorship since 1981 (later Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor ). She is now Professor Emeritus.

In the 1960s she was involved in the Algol development and the Berkeley Unix Project, particularly the Pascal development (1977). She also developed the profiler gprof (part of GNU Binutils ). She dealt with parsing, code generation and optimization of compilers and developed several programming environments such as Harmonia for interactive software development and Titanium , a Java-based language and development environment for parallel computing.

In 1994 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . From 1975 to 1979 she was co-editor of Communications of the ACM and from 1978 to 1992 editor (and founder) of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages ​​and Systems . In 2009 she received the John von Neumann Medal from the IEEE. In 2000 she received the ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming Language Achievement Award, in 2006 the ACM Distinguished Service Award, in 2008 the Harvard Medal and in 2009 the Berkeley Citation.

From 1997 to 2005 she was a senior computer scientist in the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) and in the Information Technology Advisory Committee of the US President (PITAC). In 2005 she was co-editor with Marc Snir of a report by the National Research Council on the future of high-performance computers (supercomputing).

She has been married since 1971.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Susan L. Graham in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used