Laurie Hendren Explained

Laurie Jane Hendren
Birth Date:13 December 1958
Birth Place:Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Spouse:Prakash Panangaden[1]
Fields:Computer science
Workplaces:McGill University
Alma Mater:Queen's University, Kingston
Cornell University
Doctoral Advisor:Alex Nicolau[2]
Website:
Awards:Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005–2006)[3]
ACM Fellow (2009)[4]
Canada Research Chair (2011) [5]
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2012)[6]

Laurie Hendren (December 13, 1958 – May 27, 2019)[7] was a Canadian computer scientist noted for her research in programming languages and compilers, and for her advocacy for patients to have access their health data in Quebec.

Biography

Hendren received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from Queen's University, Kingston in 1982 and 1984 respectively. She received a Ph.D in computer science from Cornell University in 1990.[8]

She then joined the School of Computer Science at the McGill University 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 McGill University from 2005 to 2014. In 2014, she became the 5 of diamonds in the Notable Women of Computing card deck.[9]

Awards and notable achievements

Hendren was awarded the Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Science at McGill University[3] for the academic year 2006–2007. She was made an ACM Fellow[4] in 2009, awarded a Canada Research Chair[5] in 2011, and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[6] in 2012.

Hendren was the programming languages area editor of the Association for Computing Machinery books series[10] 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.[11]

Research projects

Hendren has led or co-led several big open source research projects at McGill University. These are:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The passing of Prof. Laurie Hendren. McGill Faculty of Science. 29 May 2019. R. B.. Lennox.
  2. Web site: Alex Nicolau . Alex Nicolau's home page . University of California, Irvine . 2015-04-05.
  3. Web site: Faculty of Science, McGill University . The Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching . McGill University . 2015-04-05.
  4. Web site: ACM Awards . Laurie J. Hendren - Award Winner . ACM . 2015-04-05.
  5. Web site: NSERC Awards . Canada Research Chair - Laurie Hendren . NSERC . 29 November 2012 . 2015-04-05.
  6. Web site: McGill Reporter . Royal Society of Canada honours 12 McGill researchers and scholars . McGill . 2015-04-05.
  7. Web site: School of Computer Science, McGill University . The passing of Prof. Laurie Hendren . McGill University . 2019-05-27 . 2019-05-27.
  8. Web site: Laurie J. Hendren . Laurie J. Hendren - CV . McGill University . 2015-04-05.
  9. Web site: Susan H. Rodger . CRA-W and Anita Borg Institute Wikipedia Project Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing . Duke University . 2014-12-13 . 2015-04-05.
  10. Web site: ACM Books . Board Members - ACM Books . ACM . 2015-04-06.
  11. Web site: The AITO Dahl-Nygaard Prize Winners for 2019. www.aito.org. 2019-05-28.
  12. Web site: A framework for analyzing and transforming Java and Android Applications . sable.github.io . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141214011927/https://sable.github.io/soot/ . 2014-12-14.
  13. http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/abc/
  14. Web site: McLab.
  15. Web site: OHIG - Opal Health Informatics Group.

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