Sally Goldman

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Sally Ann Goldman is an American computer scientist specializing in computational learning theory. She was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering, before leaving academia to join Google Research. She is also a successful amateur powerlifter.

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Education and career

Goldman is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. [1] She majored in computer science at Brown University, and then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate study in computer science. [1] [2] She completed her Ph.D. there in 1990, with the dissertation Learning Binary Relations, Total Orders, and Read-Once Formulas supervised by Ron Rivest. [3]

As a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, she became Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering [1] [2] before leaving academia in 2008 to work for Google Research. [2] [4]

Personal life

Goldman was married to Kenneth J. Goldman, [2] also a computer scientist from St. Louis with whom she went to Brown and MIT; [1] he also became a faculty member at Washington University and a researcher for Google. He died of cancer in 2020. [4]

After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for Google, Goldman took up amateur powerlifting, [5] and has won her division and weight class in multiple national and world championships held by USA Powerlifting (USAPL), the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA), and the International Powerlifting League (IPL). [6]

Book

Goldman is the coauthor, with Ken Goldman, of an undergraduate textbook, A Practical Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms using Java (CRC Press, 2007).

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sally A. Goldman, Ph.D., The Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, archived from the original on 2016-05-12
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Sally A. Goldman", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2023-04-20
  3. Sally Goldman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 1 2 Miller, Beth (3 September 2020), Kenneth Goldman, former computer science faculty, 57, Washington University in St. Louis McKelvey School of Engineering, retrieved 2023-04-20
  5. Best Lifter Showcase: Sally Goldman, United States Powerlifting Coalition, 8 November 2021, retrieved 2023-04-20
  6. "Sally Goldman (F)", Open Powerlifting, retrieved 2023-04-20