Biography
Laurie Smith King (PhD, College of William and Mary) research interests are in programming languages and hardware-software co-design. She has spent several full time research leaves at as a Visiting Scientist at Prof. Leeser's Reconfigurable and GPU Computing Laboratory at Northeastern University. In addition to Laurie's research interests at the lab, she has been involved with computing education concerns for decades. Along with Prof. Bailey of Hamilton College she was co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Inroads from 2016 to 2019. She has served on multiple Program Committees for the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium in several capacities including Program co-Chair and later as Conference co-Chair. Her most recent work for SIGCSE is as site-selection Chair for the flagship conference held annually. She is a lifetime member of ACM as well as SIGCSE and SIGCAS.