Shriram Krishnamurthi is a computer scientist, currently a professor of

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and a member of the core development group for the Racket programming languages, responsible for creation of software packages including the Debugger, the FrTime package, and the networking

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. Since 2006, Krishnamurthi has been a leading contributor to the Bootstrap curriculum, a project to integrate computer science education into grades 6–12. Krishnamurthi received his Ph.D. at

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in 2000, under the direction of

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. His dissertation is on linguistic reuse and macro systems in the presence of first-class modules. Starting from this topic, Krishnamurthi has moved into

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and is working on topics such as

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, modularization of verification, web-based interactive programming, and more. His most recent effort is a time-oriented

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, named Flapjax, in support of asynchronous web programming. Krishnamurthi also authored a textbook on programming language design. Krishnamurthi has won several awards. In 2012, he became the inaugural winner of the SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award, given by the

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's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (

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) to a researcher whose research career began within 20 years of the nomination date. The award citation describes Krishnamurthi as "a prolific researcher who brings programming language theory to bear in many other disciplines, thus exposing its foundational value". He also won the SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award.

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