Kathleen Fisher

Kathleen Shanahan Fisher
Nationality American
Alma mater Stanford University
Known for Moby programming language
Awards ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions AT&T Labs
Tufts University
Doctoral advisor John C. Mitchell

Kathleen Shanahan Fisher is an American computer scientist who specializes in programming languages and their implementation. She is a professor of computer science at Tufts University.[1]

Fisher graduated with distinction from Stanford University in 1991, and stayed at Stanford for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1996 under the supervision of John C. Mitchell.[1][2] She worked at AT&T Labs from 1996 until 2011, when she moved to Tufts. From 2011 to 2014 she was also a program manager at DARPA.[1]

Fisher is one of the authors of the Moby experimental concurrent programming language. She was program chair of OOPSLA in 2011.[3]

In 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to programming language design, theory, and practice, and for service to the computing community."[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  2. ↑ Kathleen Fisher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ OOPSLA Committee Archived 2015-06-12 at the Wayback Machine., retrieved 2015-06-10.
  4. ↑ ACM Fellow Award Citation, retrieved 2015-06-10.


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