Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, 97331-5501, USA
email: burnett@cs.orst.edu
voice: 541-737-2539, FAX: 541-737-1300
office: Kelley Engineering Center, 3051
Margaret Burnett is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. Her current research focuses on end-user programming, end-user software engineering, and gender issues in those contexts. She has a long history of research in these issues and others relating to human issues of programming. She is also the principal architect of the Forms/3 and the FAR visual programming languages and, together with Gregg Rothermel, of the WYSIWYT testing methodology for end-user programmers. She is the founding Project Director of the EUSES Consortium, a multi-institution collaboration among Oregon State University and Carnegie Mellon, Pennsylvania State, University of Nebraska, Drexel University, University of Cambridge (U.K.), and IBM to help End Users Shape Effective Software.
You can view my Stanford talk about EUSES, given in November 2004. And here is a similar talk: my Open University talk about EUSES, which was given in June 2005. My student Laura Beckwith and I gave a talk in September 2006, at Microsoft Research Cambridge, on gender issues in end-user programming. And, you can access my April 27, 2007 Google Tech Talk on the Surprise-Explain-Reward strategy.
Dr. Burnett is a recipient of IBM's International Faculty Award (2005, 2006, 2007). She was also recently honored with the OSU College of Engineering's Research Collaboration Award (2005) and with the Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award (2000). She is a past recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (1994). She has served on a variety of ACM and IEEE conference program committees, has chaired a few of them, and has also held a number of other conference offices. She is currently serving as Workshops Co-Chair (with JJ Cadiz) for CHI'07, and is on the Program Committee for IEEE VL/HCC'07 and for ICSE'07. Next year, she will be Papers Co-Chair (with Maria Francesca Costabile) for ACM CHI'08. She is also on the Steering Committees for IEEE VL/HCC and ACM SoftVis.
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You can hear about some of the projects I've been working on lately at these upcoming presentations:
Fall 2006:
Spring 2007:Exceptions:
Except when I'm traveling. Current plans: I'll be away July 31-Aug 3 and Aug 9-24.
Here are my current and about-to-be graduate students: Christopher Bogart (Ph.D.), Valentina Grigoreanu (Ph.D.), Todd Kulesza (M.S.), Joseph Lawrance (Ph.D.), Vaishnavi Narayanan (M.S.), Simone Stumpf (post-doc), Neeraja Subrahmaniyan (M.S.)