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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

First Female PhD in Computer Science Wins Award

From Stanford University's news service Stanford Report, March 18, 2009 First woman with computer science PhD wins top award The Turing Award, computing's highest honor, has gone to a researcher with a unique Stanford connection. When Barbara Liskov completed her doctorate at Stanford in 1968, she was the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in computer science. Her dissertation was titled, "A Program to Play Chess Endgames." The award, announced by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), cites Liskov's work in making software more reliable and easier to maintain. Her achievements in programming language design are the basis of every important programming language since 1975, according to ACM. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 30, 2010 at 9:03 AM

    Sister Mary Kenneth Keller earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on May 21, 1965, three years before Liskov. Her thesis "Inductive Inference on Computer Generated Patterns" was written under the supervision of Preston C. Hammer.
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/includes/textfiles/phds.65-70.txt

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  2. AnonymousOctober 30, 2010 at 9:08 AM

    Sister Mary Kenneth Keller earned a PhD in Computer Science on May 21, 1965, under the supervision of Preston C. Hammer, three years before Barbar Liskov's PhD.
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/includes/textfiles/phds.65-70.txt

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  3. JanOctober 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM

    Thank you for this information.

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