Susan Gerhart is a semi-retired computer scientist living in Prescott AZ. Following her Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1973 she survived academic stints at Toronto, Duke, the Wang Institute, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universities, teaching mainly software engineering, Java, discrete mathematics, and data bases. Her research was primarily in the field of formal methods at USC Information Sciences Institute and the MCC research consortium. She worked with NASA at Langley and Johnson centers in research and technology transfer and at the National Science Foundation as a Division Director.

Currently, she develops and supports the desktop software packages twURL for organizing search results and @Podder, a podcast client for visually impaired. Her social services include providing opportunities for women in the computing field and advocacy for software for "baby boomer and beyond" users. She's currently fascinated by the emerging medium of podcasts, enjoying keeping up with 150 subscribed feeds.

Websites: http://www.apodder.org, http://www.twurl.com, and http://nsfsecurity.pr.erau.edu
Contact:  info@apodder.org