Kim Hazelwood, 34: Reengineering software on the fly

摘要

Imagine having a team of mechanics pull apart and retune your car's engine as you hurtle down the highway, without making the engine miss a stroke. That's the nature of the challenge that motivates Kim Hazelwood, an assistant professor of computer science, who has created tools to rewrite software as a computer is executing it. Before she started working on the problem in grad school, "I would have said there's no way you can just take programs and change them and have every program work," says Hazelwood.