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Short
Biography
Susan L.
Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science Emerita and a Professor in the Graduate
School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research spans many aspects of programming
language implementation, software tools, software development
<>environments, and high-performance computing. As a participant
in the Berkeley Unix project, she and her students built the Berkeley Pascal system
and the widely used <>program profiling tool gprof.
Their paper on that tool was selected for the list of best papers from twenty
years of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
(1979-1999). She has done seminal research in compiler code generation and
optimization. She and her students have built several interactive
programming environments, yielding a variety of incremental analysis
algorithms. Her current projects include the Titanium system for
language and compiler support of explicitly parallel programs and the Harmonia framework for high-level interactive software
development.
She
received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science from Stanford University. She is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and a
fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the founding editor-in-chief
of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. She
received the 2000 ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming Language Achievement Award
and the 2006 ACM Distinguished Service Award.
She has
served on numerous advisory committees; among them, the U.S.
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).
She served as the Chief Computer Scientist for the NSF-sponsored National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) from 1997 to
2005. She recently co-chaired a National Research Council study on the
Future of Supercomputing. She was a member of the Harvard Board of
Overseers from 2001 to 2007and was President in 2006-2007. She currently
serves as vice-chair of the Council of the NSF-sponsored Computing Community
Consortium.
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