For first time, woman wins Turing Award
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Frances Allen, an IBM computer science veteran, to be honored by ACM for her work on program optimization and Ptran.
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A Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, becoming the first African woman to win the prestigious award since it was created in 1901.
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Until this morning, not many non-Germans knew that a woman called Elfriede Jelinek existed. This state of unknowing underwent a dramatic change with an oracular announcement: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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Aaron Goldin, this week&#39;s Person of the Week, won the grand prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
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A British firm wins a prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize for the second year running.
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One of Britain's top scientists is putting her name to computer games designed to keep the brain fit.
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(InfoWorld) - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. Allen, a fellow emerita at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, was given the award for her contributions in the area of program optimization, a way of modifying a program to run more efficiently and improve performance. The award is named after the British mathematician A.M. Turing and includes a $100,000 prize. In particular, ACM cited Allen's work in automatic program parallelization, which allows programs to use multiple processors to improve speed. The group said her efforts "contributed to advances in the use of high performance computers for solving problems such as weather forecasting, DNA matching, and national security functions." The group will present the award to Allen at a ceremony in June.
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SEATTLE - For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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Shout-outs to MIT. Women eating carbs. The annual Hollywood geekfest known as the Sci-Tech Oscars couldn't be more different from the glitzy main event later this month
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for aiding democracy and seeking to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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Aug 17 - Professor Raj Reddy, an Indian researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Has designed a wirelessly networked personal computer worth just 250 US dollars intended for the four billion people around the ...
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Most of us assume computers make people smarter but one researcher looks at ways people make computers smarter. "Human computation" is the art of using massive groups of networked human minds to solve problems that computers cannot master.
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA has become the first person to receive his own personal genome map.
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InfoWorld - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize.
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.
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Pitt alumnae Wangari Muta Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, making her the first African woman to receive the award.