Barbara Horner-Miller

2025 Distinguished Alumni

B.A. Mathematics '67

 

Barbara Horner-Miller graduated with a BA in Mathematics from Oklahoma State University in 1967.  

 

After working at The Rand Corporation and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, she led a team of 15 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For eight years, she was associate director for a joint University/Department of Defense venture, the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.  

An early user of the Cray-1 supercomputer, she served on the Cray User Group Board of Directors as well as the Cray Research Software Information Services Customer Advisory Board, and was an invited speaker at the 2005 Cray Leadership Symposium. 

 

Horner-Miller did volunteer work with professional societies for over 20 years. Among her many roles, she chaired SC, the Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. She helped found ACM SIGHPC and served on its executive committee for 10 years. She helped create the Intel/SIGHPC Fellowships in Computational and Data Science, which has given over $4 million to promising graduate students from around the globe. She is a senior member of both ACM and IEEE. 

Her husband of many years, Jack Miller, passed in 2002.  She is a Master Gardener and continues her volunteer work.