[9][10][11] Her dissertation, "Inductive Inference on Computer Generated Patterns",[11] focused on "constructing algorithms that performed analytic differentiation on algebraic expression, written in CDC FORTRAN 63.

"[12] Throughout Keller's graduate studies, she was affiliated with various institutions including the University of Michigan, Purdue, and Dartmouth.

[13] Although many sources claim that Keller began working at the National Science Foundation[14] workshop in 1958 in the computer science center at Dartmouth College, a male-only institution at the time, where she participated in the implementation of the first DTSS BASIC kernel for the language, working under John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz along with about a dozen other students, this cannot be correct since Dartmouth did not acquire its first computer until 1959.

[15] Keller participated in a summer program for high school teachers at Dartmouth College in 1961 where she worked with Thomas Kurtz, the father of the BASIC language.

[24] At the ACM/SIGUCC User Services Conference in 1975, Keller declared "we have not fully used a computer as the greatest interdisciplinary tool that has been invented to date.