Susan L. Graham

Professor Emerita

Research Areas

• Graphics (GR)
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Programming Systems (PS)
• Scientific Computing (SCI)
• Software development environments, software engineering

Biography

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. In 2000 she received the ACM SIGPLAN Career Programming Language Achievement 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..Recently she co-chaired a National Research Council study on the Future of Supercomputing. She is President of the Harvard Board of Overseers. She is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita at the UC 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).

Selected Publications

• P. N. Hilfinger, D. Bonachea, K. Datta, D. Gay, S. L. Graham, A. Kamil, B. Liblit, G. Pike, J. Su, and K. A. Yelick, "Titanium Language Reference Manual (Version 2.20)," 2006.
• NRC Committee, Getting Up to Speed: The Future of Supercomputing, S. L. Graham, M. Snir, and C. A. Patterson, Eds., Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2005.
• S. L. Graham, P. B. Kessler, and M. K. McKusick, "Among Best Papers from Twenty Years of the Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (1979-1999): gprof: A call graph execution profiler," ACM SIGPLAN Notices: Special Issue on the Best of PLDI 1979-1999, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 49-57, April 2004.
• A. Begel, S. McCanne, and S. L. Graham, "BPF+: Exploiting global data-flow optimization in a generalized packet filter architecture," in Proc. Conf. on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1999, pp. 123-134.
• K. A. Yelick, L. Semenzato, G. Pike, C. Miyamoto, B. Liblit, A. Krishnamurthy, P. N. Hilfinger, S. L. Graham, D. Gay, P. Colella, and A. Aiken, "Titanium: A high-performance Java dialect," Concurrency: Practice and Experience, vol. 10, no. 11-13, pp. 825-836, Sep. 1998.
• D. F. Bacon, S. L. Graham, and O. J. Sharp, "Compiler transformations for high-performance computing," ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 345-420, Dec. 1994.
• T. A. Wagner, V. Maverick, S. L. Graham, and M. A. Harrison, "Accurate static estimators for program optimization," in Proc. ACM SIGPLAN 1994 Conf. on Programming Language Design and Implementation, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1994, pp. 85-96.
• R. Wahbe, S. Lucco, T. E. Anderson, and S. L. Graham, "Efficient software-based fault isolation," in Proc. 14th ACM Symp. on Operating System Principles, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1994, pp. 203-216.
• R. Giegerich and S. L. Graham, Eds., Code Generation: Concepts, Tools, Techniques, Workshops in Computing, New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1992.
• S. L. Graham and M. L. Van de Vanter, "The Pan language-based editing system," ACM Trans. Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 95-117, Jan. 1992.
• R. L. Ashenhurst and S. L. Graham, Eds., ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years: 1966-1985, ACM Press Anthology Series, New York, NY: ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1987.
• S. L. Graham, M. A. Harrison, and W. L. Ruzzo, "An improved context-free recognizer," ACM Trans. Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 415-462, July 1980.
• R. S. Glanville and S. L. Graham, "A new method for compiler code generation," in Proc. 5th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Symp. on Principles of Programming Languages, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1978, pp. 231-254.
• S. L. Graham, C. B. Haley, and W. N. Joy, "Berkeley Pascal User's Manual (Version 1)," 1977.
• S. L. Graham and M. Wegman, "A fast and usually linear algorithm for global flow analysis," J. ACM, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 172-202, Jan. 1976.