Susan H. Rodger is an American computer scientist known for work in computer science education including developing the software JFLAPJFLAP web page: http://www.jflap.org/ for over twenty years. JFLAP is educational software for visualizing and interacting with formal languages and automata. Rodger is also known for peer-led team learning in computer science and integrating computing into middle schools and high schools with Alice. She is also served on the board of CRA-W and was chair of ACM SIGCSE from 2013 to 2016.ACM SIGCSE Web Page http://www.sigcse.org/
Biography Rodger was born in Columbia, South Carolina. She received a B.S. in computer science and a B.S. in mathematics from North Carolina State University in 1983. She received a M.S. in computer science from Purdue University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1989.
She immediately joined the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor. In 1994 she moved to Duke University as an assistant professor of the Practice of Computer Science. She was promoted to associate professor of the practice of computer science in 1997 and to professor of the practice in 2008.
Awards 2006: Rodger was named an ACM Distinguished Member.Duke press release: https://www.cs.duke.edu/news/?article=208ACM Distinguished member page: http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/rodger_2853521.cfm 2007: Finalist in the NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware (for the software JFLAP).JFLAP press release: http://www.jflap.org/Premier2007_pressrelease_v2.pdf 2014: ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.ACM announcement: http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/rodger_2853521.cfm 2019: IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award.IEEE CS announcement: https://www.computer.org/press-room/2019-news/2019-taylor-l-booth-award-susan-rodger 2019: David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award Duke Announcement: https://today.duke.edu/2019/04/trinity-awards-honor-10-innovative-teaching-advising-leadership 2023: SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education
See also Owen Astrachan Alicia Nicki Washington Duke University JFLAP Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute North Carolina State University Alice (software)
References
External links Duke University: Susan H. Rodger, Department of Computer Science Duke University: Susan H. Rodger, Department of Computer Science Susan H. Rodger, Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing