Kathleen Fisher

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

This article is about the computer scientist. For the musician and actress, see Fisher (band).
Kathleen Shanahan Fisher
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Known forMoby programming language
AwardsACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsAT&T Labs
Tufts University
Doctoral advisorJohn C. Mitchell

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 ICFP in 2004,[3] OOPSLA in 2011,[4] and PLDI in 2019.[5]

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."[6]

References
  1. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  2. Kathleen Fisher at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "International Conference on Functional Programming 2004: Information". www.icfpconference.org. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  4. OOPSLA Committee Archived 2015-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2015-06-10.
  5. "Organizing Committee - PLDI 2019". pldi19.sigplan.org. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  6. ACM Fellow Award Citation, retrieved 2015-06-10.


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