Judith Bishop

Judith Bishop is Director of Computer Science in External Research at Microsoft Research, based in Redmond, USA. Her role is to create strong links between Microsoft's research groups and universities globally, through encouraging projects, supporting conferences and engaging directly in
research. Her goal and passion is to clearly demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of Microsoft technologies to computer science research and teaching today.

Judith has a distinguished background in academia, having been a professor most recently at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has had visiting positions in the UK, Germany, Canada, Italy and the USA. Her expertise is in programming languages and distributed systems, with a strong
practical bias and an interest in compilers and design patterns. After doing her undergraduate degrees at Rhodes and Natal in South Africa, she received her PhD from the University of Southampton in 1977 on the relationship of languages to computer architecture. She has over 90 publications including 15 books on programming languages that are available in six languages and
read worldwide. She has presented many keynotes, tutorials and special lectures. She is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town.

Judith serves frequently on international editorial, programme and award committees, and has received numerous awards and distinctions, in particular the IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and the IFIP Silver Core Award 2006 for service to the worldwide computer science community, the Computer Society Fellowship Award in 2008, the South African DTI Award for Distinguished Woman Scientist of the Year for Innovation 2005 and one of 100 Leading Mind Awards from her University in its Centenary Year 2008. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Royal Society of South Africa and of many other prestigious bodies.