CRA-WP is honored to present the 2020 CRA-WP Awards for both the inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award and the Anita Borg Early Career Award. Tawanna Dillahunt of the University of Michigan and Michel A. Kinsy of Boston University have been selected as the inaugural 2020 Skip Ellis Early Career Award recipients. The Skip Ellis […]
Carol Frieze – A. Nico Habermann Award Winner Director of SCS4ALL and Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Carol Frieze was selected as the recipient of the 2017 A. Nico Habermann Award Winner for devoting nearly two decades to promoting diversity and inclusiveness in computing. She has worked with and supported a wide variety of students […]
CRA-W is proud to announce that Martha Kim (Columbia University) and Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research and University of Massachusetts, Amherst) are this year’s Borg Early Career Award Winners. Martha Kim is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She is committed to promoting diversity in computer science. She has been particularly active in high school outreach, participating in high-school oriented conferences […]
Ayanna Howard was selected as the recipient of the 2016 A. Nico Habermann Award for her sustained commitment to increasing diversity, combined with her distinction in research. She has a decades-long track record of improving access to research for women and underrepresented minorities (URMs), as well as students with disabilities. Dating back to her work […]
Maria Klawe was selected as the 2016 recipient of the CRA Distinguished Service Award for her tireless commitment to and profound impact on the computing research community. Klawe is the president of Harvey Mudd College and has previously served as president of the Association for Computing Machinery. She helped Anita Borg and Telle Whitney establish […]
Originally Printed in the Winter/Spring 2015 Newsletter The recipient of the 2015 A. Nico Habermann Award is Ann Quiroz Gates, Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). CRA awards the Habermann, usually annually, to a person who has made outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers […]
Mary Lou Soffa of the University of Virginia received the ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for contributions to detecting and managing software security flaws. She developed software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency. Her research produced automatic, practical solutions in software engineering, systems and […]
Originally printed in the Summer/Fall 2014 Newsletter Anne Condon, professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, is the 2014 recipient of the Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award. She received her Bachelor’s degree (1982) from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. (1987) at the University […]
The Computing Research Association (CRA) gives the A. Nico Habermann Award to a person who has made outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented groups in the computing research community. This year, the award goes to Nancy Amato, Unocal Professor and Interim Department Head of the Department of Computer Science and […]
Originally Printed in the Summer/Fall 2013 Newsletter The Anita Borg Institute has named Margaret Martonosi as the 2013 winner of its Award for Technical Leadership. This award recognizes women technologists who demonstrate leadership through their contributions to technology and achievements in increasing the impact of women on technology. Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community […]
