Cherri M. Pancake
However, the political unrest in Guatemala in the early 1980s caused her to return to the US, where she became a graduate student in engineering at Auburn University, the first woman in the program.She performed the first usability studies of software tools for high performance computing, and found methods of improving the usability of these tools based on her knowledge of color perception, response time, short-term memory, and programming errors.[4][7][8] For over two decades, Pancake has been active with the ACM/IEEE SC (Supercomputing) Conference, serving as general chair of SC99[9] and in numerous other positions.She founded the Parallel Tools Consortium in 1993 and led several software standards efforts.In 2011, she founded SIGHPC and served as its chair until 2016, when she was elected vice-president of the Association for Computing Machinery[10] and then president in 2018.