ACM gives Turing award to OOP, distributed computing pioneer
Tue, Mar 10th, 2009 |
Each year, the Association for Computing Machinery recognizes an individual for significant contributions to the computing community with the award of the Turing prize. Thanks to Intel and Google, that prize comes with a healthy cash prize: $250,000. This year's award goes to someone who seems to have been a pioneer on nearly every level. Not only were her ideas incorporated into object-oriented programming and distributed computing, but she pioneered on a personal level as well, becoming the first woman in the US to receive a PhD in computer science.
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