...Professor Judith Bishop joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria in 1991 from University of Southampton after twelve years at the University of the Witwatersrand. She received a PhD on Code Generation and Structured Architectures from University of Southampton (1977). Dr. Bishop had sabbaticals at University of Cambridge (1980), University of Southampton(1986), the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh (1994/5) and the University of Victoria (1999).
Judith Bishop's research interests are programming languages and distributed systems. Since the 1970s, she has worked on computer architecture, languages and operating systems, going through the days of Pascal, occam, Ada, Stack Machines, RISC machines, UNIX and specialised configurations systems such as Darwin. For the past seven years she has worked with Java, and now have a Microsoft Rotor Project based on C#.
Professor Bishop is a Mac fan and has used Apples since the early 1980s. She currently has three - a Powerbook, and two iMacs and is drooling for a new flat screen iMac. She also has two Wintels round and about ...
Dr. Bishop has published over 50 journal articles and international conference papers as well as thirteen books translated into six languages, including the best selling series of books, Java Gently. She guided many students and colleagues to present good papers and degrees.
Judith is the principal grant holder for the Polelo Project which is funded by the National Research Foundation and the SA-German cooperation agreement, a DTI THRIP grantholder with local company, Jay van Zyl, and Microsoft.
Dr. Bishop is the SA Representative on IFIP TC-2 and convenor of the awards committee. Immediate past Chairman of IFIP Working Group 2.4 (Software Implementation Technology), and a past chairman of the SA Computer Lecturers Association (SACLA).
She is the editor of IEE Software and on the editorial board of the South African Computer Journal, and has organised many successful conferences, workshops and courses...
K-Collector