Awards and Recognitions

ACM Awards Honor Significant Contributions to Computer Science

ACM also announced the winners of awards honoring significant contributions to the computing field. These awards recognize dedicated professionals whose efforts have vastly improved processor efficiency, expanded opportunities for women, and provided significantly greater access to computing research.

Susan Eggers received the 2009-2010 Athena Lecturer Award for her work on computer architecture and experimental performance analysis, which has led to the development of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), the first commercially viable multithreaded architecture.

Telle Whitney received the Distinguished Service Award for her profound impact on the participation of women in computing. Whitney, President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI), co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which has grown into a major annual event.

Recognition for ENIAC Pioneer

ENIAC Pioneer Jean Bartik, now 85, received the Computer History Museum Fellows Award. Jean Bartik was one of the first programmers of the groundbreaking ENIAC computing system in 1945. She later assisted in converting the ENIAC system into one of the first stored-program computers.

This year, Bartik also received the Pioneers Award from the IEEE Computer Society for pioneering work as one of the first programmers, including co-leading the first teams of ENIAC programmers and pioneering work on BINAC and UNIVAC I.

From all of us at ACM W, congratulations!

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