The Association for Women in Computing (AWC) is a professional organization for women in computing. It was founded in 1978 in Washington, D.C., and is...
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[[file:|Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist)|0px|alt=]] Women in computing were among the first programmers in the early 20th century, and contributed substantially...
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest...
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of women in computing. It covers the time when women worked as "human computers" and then as programmers of physical computers. Eventually, women programmers...
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initiatives to bring more women into the field of computing. In the early days of computers and computing, managers readily hired women as programming was seen...
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Ada Lovelace Award (category 1981 in women's history)
Association for Women in Computing. Retrieved 1 June 2017. Deibel, Katherine (November 22, 2006), "Women in Computing" (PDF), History of Computing (CSE...
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Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront...
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Milly Koss (category American women computer scientists)
The Association for Women in Computing awarded her an Ada Lovelace Award in 2000. She attended Philadelphia High School for Girls and graduated in Mathematics...
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Anita Borg (category 1996 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
on Open Computing Magazine's Top 100 Women in Computing. Borg was also a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association and served...
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ACM-W (redirect from ACM Council on Women in Computing)
The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement...
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Informatics (redirect from Computics)
equivalents for institutes of technology). Depending on the context, informatics is also translated into computing, scientific computing or information...
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Ada Lovelace (category 19th-century British women mathematicians)
L. (eds.), Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, doi:10...
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Dorothy E. Denning (category 1995 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
security innovator in 2001. The 2001 Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing acknowledged "her outstanding in computer security...
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Service Medal in 1979, and the Ada Lovelace Award of the Association for Women in Computing in 1984, among other awards. Carnegie Mellon University and...
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Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) (category American women computer scientists)
Ada Lovelace Award by the Association for Women in Computing. In 2003, she was given the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award for scientific and technical...
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Betty Holberton (category 20th-century American women scientists)
given by the Association of Women in Computing. That same year, she received the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society for developing...
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Richard A. Tapia Association for Computing Machinery CRA was the main organizer of the first Federated Computing Research Conference in 1993. CRA-WP Informatics...
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individuals, in the field of computing. The computing sector, like other STEM fields, lacks diversity in the United States. Despite women constituting...
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Frances Allen (category 1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing. In 2004, Allen was the winner of the ABIE Award for Technical Leadership from the Anita...
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history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and...
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Thea D. Hodge (category American women computer scientists)
the Association for Computing Machinery and a cofounder of the Minneapolis chapter of the Association for Women in Computing. Hodge was a pioneer for women...
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Elaine Shi (category 2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
distributed systems, and the oblivious RAM model, and cryptographic techniques for encrypted computation. She is an associate professor of computer science...
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Jean E. Sammet (category 1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
Society for the Computing and Information Sciences), inducted on October 8, 1975. 1989: Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the Association for Women in Computing. 1994:...
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on specific topics. AnitaB.org Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women Association for Women in Computing BCSWomen, a specialist group of...
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Dana Ron (category 2023 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
pioneers of research in property testing, and a leading researcher in that area. Dana Ron obtained her B.A. (1987) and M.A. (1989) in computer science from...
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Carla Brodley (category 2016 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
Intelligence (AAAI), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the Dean of Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, where...
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Outline of software development (category Outlines of computing and engineering)
"try-before-you-buy" basis. Association for Women in Computing (AWC) organizes educational and networking events for female tech specialists in order to increase...
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AnitaB.org (redirect from Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology)
the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing". Computing Research News. 22 (1). Computing Research Association. Retrieved 26 June 2011. AnitaB.org...
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Dana Angluin (category American women computer scientists)
science at Yale University. She is known for foundational work in computational learning theory and distributed computing. Angluin received her B.A. (1969) and...
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Barbara Simons (category 1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
an American computer scientist and the former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of...
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