Laurie Hendren (December 13, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was a Canadian

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noted for her research in programming languages and

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Biography

Hendren received a

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and

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from Queen's University, Kingston in 1982 and 1984 respectively. She received a

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in computer science from

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in 1990. She then joined the School of Computer Science at the

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as an assistant professor in 1990. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2001. She also served as Associate Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Science at

from 2005 to 2014. In 2014, she became the 5 of diamonds in the Notable Women of Computing card deck.

Awards and notable achievements

Hendren was awarded the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Science at

for the academic year 2006–2007. She was made an ACM Fellow in 2009, awarded a

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in 2011, and elected as a fellow of the

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in 2012. Hendren was the programming languages area editor of the

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books series and has been the program chair of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference. In 2019, Hendren was awarded the senior AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize, but died before the ECOOP conference at which the prize is usually awarded. It was thus awarded posthumously.

Research projects

Hendren has led or co-led several big

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research projects at McGill University. These are: * Soot: a framework for analyzing and transforming Java and Android Applications * SableVM: an open implementation of a

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* abc: the AspectBench Compiler for AspectJ * McLab: compiler tools for array-based languages * HIG: health informatics research for radiation oncology

References

External links

* McGill University
Laurie Hendren, School of Computer Science
* Blog
Flat-chested warriors blog about breast cancer and the Goldilocks Mastectomy
* Papers and citations
Google Scholar Profile for Laurie J. Hendren
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