Barbara G. Ryder is an American

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noted for her research on programming languages and more specifically, the theoretical foundations and empirical investigation of interprocedural compile-time analysis.

Biography

Ryder received an

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from

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in 1969. She received a

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in 1971 and a

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from

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in 1982. She then joined the Department of Computer Science at

as an assistant professor in 1982. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and to professor in 1994. In 2008, she moved to

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as head of the Department of Computer Science. She retired in 2016.

Awards

In 1998 she was named an

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Fellow. Her other notable awards include: * ACM Presidential Award (2008) * ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award (2001) * PLDI'92 paper selected for Best of PLDI Collection 1970–1996 in April 2003. The paper was titled: A Safe Approximate Algorithm for Interprocedural Pointer Aliasing.

References

External links

* Virginia Tech
Barbara Ryder, Department of Computer Science
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