First Woman to Receive ACM Turing Award
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NEW YORK, Feb. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M.
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Spreadsheet pioneer Dan Bricklin is among the computing innovators honored by the Computer History Museum.
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A visiting scholar whose computer has been linked to a hacker attack at the University of California, Berkeley, released a statement late Friday saying she believed her equipment
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Scientists said Tuesday they have developed a computer program that can predict whether women have a high risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.
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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.
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Tomma Abts became the first female painter in the 22-year history of Britain's Turner Prize to win the controversial modern art award.
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Special to the Journal-World. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize is remembered fondly by the nuns who taught her in Atchison.
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An amateur cryptographer who beat the World War II machine in a code-cracking challenge is honoured.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
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Well, this is some news I've been wanting to share for a while, but I've had to wait until everything was ready.  During the summer, I spoke at RubyConf*MI, one of the first regional Ruby Conferences (I think San Diego held the only one earlier than the Michigan folks).  At the time, they filmed all the presentations.
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Second place has been revealed in Nick Halstead's programming competition - and the 2nd place mark goes to Evan Chiu.   So second place, more drum rolls.. goes to Evan Chiu. Evan's solution revolved around a well implemented breadth first search which was wrapped up in a neat class. It was also quite well presented and the HTML was all w3c compliant.   In Evan's solution, he opted for a single "solve" method to handle the heart of the transition - an implementation of the "Breadth First Search method. If you'd like to see the full code, you can check it out here.
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How does it feel to be the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science award? Sweet, indeed, says Frances Allen, the IBM Fellow Emerita who this week received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday named Susan Hockfield as its first female president, a breakthrough for the world-renowned school that has churned out more than 50 Nobel prizewinners but which ranks below the national average for its percentage of female students.
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Veteran computer scientist Frances Allen looks back on Ptran, "primitive" computing and what it was like making her way in a man's world.
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A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like talk for the third time.
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As the Zend Developer Zone points out there's a new interview over on the PHPWomen.org website with Nancy Wichmann, one of the members of the PHP Women group, about some of her development experiences.   NancyW - a well known drupal developer, documentation contributor, module developer/maintainer apart from these a prestigious WOMEN in the world of opensource.   The interviewer asks a wide range of questions (with some interesting answers!) on topics ranging from her college major, how she got interested in Drupal out to things like her good/bad experiences in the open source world and some advice for those new to the community.
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The prize's sponsor, the Association for Computing Machinery, cited Frances Allen's work in automatic program parallelization, which allows software to use multiple processors to improve speed.