ACM-W October 2025 Newsletter

By Rukiye Altın As we reconnect with our ACM-W members, friends, and supporters, I’m delighted to share our highlights, which are filled with accomplishments, collaboration, and inspiration across our global community. Together, we celebrated achievements, welcomed new chapters, and highlighted the inspiring women in computing who are driving change and innovation around the world. As […]

We are delighted to welcome Tejaswini Apte as the new ACM-W Celebration Chair! Tejaswini is an experienced cybersecurity and database professional with nearly two decades of expertise in operating systems and network security, cloud administration, database administration, and performance tuning. Over the course of her career, she has worked with leading organisations such as IBM, […]

By Adriana Wilde This month, we are delighted to spotlight Professor Mira Mezini, ACM Fellow (2024) and Professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt (TUDa), where she leads the Software Technology Lab. Honoured for her pioneering work in programming languages and software analysis—with applications in distributed systems, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence—and for her contributions to […]

By Fuzzy Kara-Isitt Professor Sue Black OBE transformed a night-school maths class into a computer-science career that reshaped the landscape of women’s inclusion in technology. Today, she stands among the UK’s most influential technologists as a social entrepreneur, academic, and advocate for women in tech. From rebuilding her life to rebuilding Bletchley Park, her story […]

By Adriana Wilde In a previous ACM-W blog post, Empowering Women to Return to Computing: A Game of Snakes and Ladders, I first proposed rethinking the narrative around women’s careers in computing through a new metaphor based on the snakes-and-ladders board game. This metaphor feels closer to the lived experience of many of us: unpredictable, […]