An Interview with Gail Murphy - 2023 SIGSOFT Awardee

Abstract

Gail Murphy received the 2023 SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for pioneering contributions to recommenders for software engineering and program comprehension that have impacted both theory and practice. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 1996 (USA), and she is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Vice-President of Research & Innovation at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research interests are in improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by giving them tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that really matters for their work.