Susan L. Graham
Graham in 2012
Born
Susan Lois Graham

(1942-09-16) September 16, 1942 (age 81)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materA.B. Harvard
M.S., Ph.D. Stanford
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis Precedence Languages and Bounded Right Context Languages  (1971)
Doctoral advisorDavid Gries
Other academic advisorsNiklaus Wirth
Doctoral studentsDavid F. Bacon
M. Kirk McKusick
Mark N. Wegman
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~graham

Susan Lois Graham (born September 16, 1942) is an American computer scientist. Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emerita[1][2] in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.[3]

Education and professional career

Born in Cleveland, Graham received her A.B. in mathematics from Harvard in 1964.[4] She did her graduate work in computer science at Stanford, receiving her M.S. in 1966 and her Ph.D. in 1971 under the supervision of David Gries.[5] In 1971 she joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, rising from assistant professor (1971–1976), through associate professor (1976–1981) to full professor from 1981 onwards.

Graham's research projects include:

Graham was the founding editor of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.[2] Graham has published dozens of research articles and has lectured and published extensively on subjects in computer languages, compilers and programming environments.

She is a member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Among other activities, she chaired the Panel on Open Source Software for High End Computing.[8]

Graham has long been involved with Harvard, culminating with her joining the Harvard Corporation in 2011.[9]

Honors and awards

She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for contributions to the theory and practice of compiler construction and for leadership in the computer science community.

In 1994 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[10] She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[11]

In 2004, her paper on Gprof appeared on the list of the 50 most influential PLDI papers of all time as one of four papers of 1982 year.[12]

In 2009, she was awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for "contributions to programming language design and implementation and for exemplary service to the discipline of computer science".

On Sept. 29, 2011 it was announced[13][14] that she had been chosen to receive the ACM-IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award on November 15, 2011 in Seattle at SC11, the international conference on high-performance computing.

Graham is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.[15]

Personal life

Graham is married to professor emeritus Michael A. Harrison of UC Berkeley.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Susan L. Graham | IEEE Computer Society". Archived from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  2. ^ a b c "Susan L Graham and Helen Meyer Named Co-Chairs of Cal Performances at UC Berkeley" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  3. ^ Tiffany K. Wayne (2011). American Women of Science Since 1900. ABC-CLIO. pp. 452–. ISBN 978-1-59884-158-9. Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  4. ^ "Engineering and Technology History: Susan Graham – Oral History". Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  5. ^ Susan Lois Graham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Boshernitsan, M.; Graham, S.L. (2000). "Designing an XML-based exchange format for Harmonia". Proceedings Seventh Working Conference on Reverse Engineering. pp. 287–289. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.21.5682. doi:10.1109/WCRE.2000.891482. ISBN 978-0-7695-0881-8. S2CID 15788681.
  7. ^ Yelick, Kathy; Semenzato, Luigi; Pike, Geoff; Miyamoto, Carleton; Liblit, Ben; Krishnamurthy, Arvind; Hilfinger, Paul; Graham, Susan; Gay, David; Colella, Phil; Aiken, Alex (1998). "Titanium: a high-performance Java dialect". Concurrency: Practice and Experience. 10 (11–13): 825–836. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.23.5235. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-9128(199809/11)10:11/13<825::AID-CPE383>3.0.CO;2-H. ISSN 1040-3108.
  8. ^ "Report to the President: Developing Open Source Software to Advance High End Computing" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-01-20. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  9. ^ "Three to join Harvard Corporation, Harvard Gazette, May 25, 2011". 25 May 2011. Archived from the original on February 12, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  10. ^ "ACM Fellows – G". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2007-04-04. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
  11. ^ 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows Archived 2016-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
  12. ^ "20 Years of PLDI (1979–1999): A Selection, Kathryn S. McKinley, Editor". Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
  13. ^ ACM press release: http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2011/kennedy-award-2011 Archived 2017-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "ACM Bulletin: MemberNet". Archived from the original on 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  15. ^ "Notable Women in Computing". Archived from the original on 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2021-10-23.

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