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Computer Science Field Needs a Few (More) Good Women
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/0480/040109_Rajeev_Raizada_Tanzeem_Choudhury.large.jpg?1238619887&1238619886 "Dartmouth College Assistant Professor of Computer Science Tanzeem Choudhury")
Rajeev Raizada
When ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) awarded Barbara Liskov the prestigious A.M. Turing Award earlier this month, its decision and timing were perfect — Liskov is a true pioneer in her field and March is National Women's History Month. In addition to making the types of "foundational innovations" that ACM cited in awarding the MIT professor the honor often described as the 'Nobel Prize in computing,' Liskov was also the first woman to receive a doctorate from ...
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