2009 JVN medal goes to Susan L. Graham

In a continuation of our policy on hinting to pre 2.0 computing professionals, today we have got Susan L. Graham. Mrs. Graham has received the 2009 IEEE John Von Neumann Medal. Past recipients of the Von Neumann medal include computing legends Donald Knuth, Doug Engelbart, and C. Gordon Bell.

The medal was presented on 25 June 2009 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in Los Angeles. Mrs. Graham receives it for innovations including a sophisticated pattern-matching algorithm and an

elimination-style algorithm for analyzing the flow of values in a program. Susan L. Graham is reachable through graham at cs dot berkeley dot edu.

What Dr.Dobbs had to say:

Known for taking her ideas through the full development cycle from practice to theory then back into practice, the results of Graham's work are widely used in practical compiler systems that convert high-level programming language code into the target language instructions used by a computer. She has promoted the development and distribution of widely used software throughout her career, and her service to the field has been demonstrated through her work on national committees and as founding editor of a leading programming language journal.

What Wikipedia says:

Graham is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. ... In 1994 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

What her own homepage says:

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. ... She and her students have built several interactive programming environments, yielding a variety of incremental analysis algorithms.