Susan Gerhart interview: Overview
Sections on this page (click icon at right to open/close list)
On a separate page: Selected quotes from this interview
Brief background
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.
Susan Gerhart’s 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.
Interview materials
This section includes the audio and transcript of the interview with Susan Gerhart, conducted on March 10, 2008 in Austin, TX USA by Vicki Almstrum.
Audio of interview [1 hour 8 minutes]
PDF of interview transcript
[27 pages, 1,167 transcribed lines of text]
Links to other information about Susan Gerhart
- Susan Gerhart’s CV (via the Wayback Machine)
- Susan Gerhart’s blog, As Your World Changes, about adjusting to vision loss and the role of technology
- ACM Digital Library Author Profile Page for Susan Gerhart
- DBLP publications page for Susan Gerhart
- Wikipedia article about Susan Gerhart
Video clip: Sputnik’s influence on Susan’s Gerhart’s career choice
- Recorded October 2009
- About 9 minutes; PDF transcript of video clip is located further down under the video
- This video clip is also available on CEOHP’s YouTube channel