Susan Gerhart is a semi-retired computer scientist who has had a far-reaching career in academia, including Wang Institute of Graduate Studies and undergraduate programs at University of Toronto, Duke University, and Embry-Riddle University. Her primary research has been in the field of formal methods at USC Information Sciences Institute and the MCC Austin Research Consortium. She has also worked with NASA Langley Research Center and NASA Johnson Space Center in research and technology transfer and at the National Science Foundation as a Division Director. Her more recent work focuses on how to use technology to overcome vision loss. Susan's fascination with software code started during the Sputnik era and has continued through logic programming, search analysis, and educational animation.
This webpage gives access to the audio and transcript of the interview with Susan Gerhart, conducted on March 10, 2008 in Austin, TX USA by Vicki Almstrum. Below we list excerpts from the interview, which lead to the related audio snippets on a separate page.
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