Barbara G. Ryder

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| nationality = American

| fields = Computer Science

| workplaces = Virginia Tech
Rutgers University

| alma_mater = Rutgers University
Stanford University
Brown University

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| known_for = programming languages

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| awards = ACM Fellow (1998)

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Barbara G. Ryder is an American Computer Scientist 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 A.B. in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1969. She received a M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 1971 and a Ph.D in computer science from Rutgers University in 1982.

She then joined the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University 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 Virginia Tech as head of the Department of Computer Science. She retired in 2016.

Awards

In 1998

she was named an ACM Fellow.

{{cite web

|author= Association for Computing Machinery

|url= http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/ryder_1582709.cfm

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|publisher= ACM

|date=2013-08-17

|accessdate= 2013-08-17

}} She was also awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2023. {{Cite web |title=2023 AAAS Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/2023-fellows |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=www.aaas.org |language=en}}

Her other notable awards include: