While I was dealing with all sorts of travel problems this past weekend, Telle Whitney was in San Diego to see Fran Allen receive the Turing Award. I hope Telle took pictures, because the ACM still hasn’t learned to use online social networking tools to quickly distribute the media that its members want to see…
However, while I was looking around for photos or video from the awards banquet, I found this Congressional resolution, passed by the House of Representatives on May 1 (how’d I miss this?), which honors:
…the pioneering life work of Frances Allen in computer research and development and salutes the Turing Award Committee for recognizing, through the selection of Frances Allen, that creative women have contributed mightily to the development of this important field.
I’m not sure what made me tear up more: Fran receiving such recognition or the acknowledgment that women have made great contributions to computer science.
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Sunayana stopped by on June 28, 2007 at 11:57 AM EST and had this to say:
I looked around for photos and videos from the banquet too, could only find this http://awards.acm.org/dinner_07.cfm
Fran Allen is a real inspiration for me as well, and I’m going to be hearing her speak at the OurCS conference in CMU this October :)