Susan B. Horwitz

For the biochemist, see Susan Band Horwitz.
Susan B. Horwitz
Born (1955-01-06)January 6, 1955
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Died June 11, 2014(2014-06-11) (aged 59)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Nationality American
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of Wisconsin–Madison (1985-present)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Rocquencourt, France (1982-83)
University of Copenhagen (1993-94)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Pisa, Italy (2000–2001)
University Paris Diderot (2007–2008)
Alma mater Cornell University
Wesleyan University
Doctoral advisor Tim Teitelbaum
Doctoral students Wuu Yang
Thomas Ball
Suan Yong
Raghavan Komondoor
Known for programming languages
software engineering
Notable awards ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award (2011)
Website
pages.cs.wisc.edu/~horwitz/

Susan Beth Horwitz (January 6, 1955 – June 11, 2014) was an American computer scientist noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. She had several best paper and an impact paper award mentioned below under awards.

She was an award-winning teacher at her institution and was the founder of Peer Led Team Learning for Computer Science (PLTLCS), creating the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars-Computer Science (WES-CS) program. She took the lead for an NSF ITWF Grant 0420343 that was a collaboration between eight schools doing PLTLCS, including the University of WisconsinMadison with Horwitz, Duke University, Georgia Tech, Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Purdue University, Beloit College, and Loyola College. They published a paper in 2009[1] that showed that active recruiting combined with peer-led team learning is an effective approach to attracting and retaining under-represented students in an introductory Computer Science class. She was also noted for her leadership in computing in high schools. She was a member of the Educational Testing Services Advanced Placement Computer Science Test Development Committee for ten years from 1987 to 1997, including chairing the committee for five years from 1992 to 1997 at a time when the programming language for the exam changed from Pascal to C++.

Biography

Horwitz received a A.B. magna cum laude in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 1977, a M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1982 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1985. She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as an assistant professor in 1985. She was promoted to associate professor in 1991, and to professor in 1996. She was associate chair from 2004 to 2007. She became an emeritus professor in 2014.[2]

Death

Horwitz died on June 11, 2014, aged 59, from stomach cancer.[3]

Awards

Horwitz received several best paper awards:

Horwitz has several awards at Wisconsin:

References

  1. Susan Horwitz, Susan H. Rodger, Maureen Biggers, David Brinkley, Dawn Gundermann, Susanne Hambrusch, Steven Huss-Lederman, Barbara Ryder, and Monica Sweat (2009). "Using peer-led team learning to increase participation and success of under-represented groups in introductory computer science". SIGCSE '09 Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education 41 (1): 163–167. doi:10.1145/1539024.1508925.
  2. Susan B. Horwitz profile, pages.cs.wisc.edu; accessed October 29, 2014.
  3. Madison.com (2014-07-05). "Horwitz, Susan Beth". Madison.com. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
  4. S. Horwitz, T. Reps and D. Binkley (1988). "Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs". PLDI '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1988 conference on Programming Language design and Implementation 23 (7): 35–46. doi:10.1145/53990.53994.
  5. Thomas Reps, Susan Horwitz, Mooly Sagiv and Genevieve Rosay (1994). "Speeding up Slicing". SIGSOFT '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering 19 (5): 11–20. doi:10.1145/193173.195287.
  6. Suan Yong and Susan Horwitz (2005). "Using Static Analysis to Reduce Dynamic Analysis Overhead". Formal Methods in System Design 27 (3): 313–34. doi:10.1007/s10703-005-3401-0.
  7. Susan Horwitz, Thomas Reps and Mooly Sagiv (1995). "Demand interprocedural dataflow analysis". SIGSOFT '95 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering 20 (4): 104–15. doi:10.1145/222124.222146.
  8. Mooly Sagiv, Thomas Reps and Susan Horwitz (1996). "Precise interprocedural dataflow analysis with applications to constant propagation". Theoretical Computer Science 167 (1-2): 131–70. doi:10.1016/0304-3975(96)00072-2.
  9. University of Wisconsin-Madison (October 18, 2011). "L&S Honors Program honors seven distinguished faculty". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  10. University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department (March 29, 2014). "Department of Computer Science Awards". University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
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