Professional Networking

 

Continuing Education

 

Mentoring

Past Award Recipients

• Dr. C. Dianne Martin
Researcher with Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute (CSPRI)

• Dr. Anita Jones
Outstanding scientific and technical technical accomplishments in computer architecture, programming, and operating systems. Former Director of Defense Research and Engineering at the U. S. Department of Defense

• Carol Bartz
President and CEO of Yahoo! and former CEO of Autodesk

• Dr. Frances E. Allen
First woman to be named IBM Fellow

• Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Forefront of information warfare, security, and cryptography fields

• Adele Mildred ("Milly") Koss
Distinguished career computer technology, including applications design and development, database technologies and computer security. Developed the first compilers with Grace Hopper

• Esther Dyson
A powerful thinker in the computing industry and founding chairman of ICANN

• Betty Snyder Holberton
One of the six original programmers of ENIAC

• Dr. Anita Borg
Founder of Systers, the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing, now a program of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

• Jean Sammet
Expert in programming languages.

• Margaret H. Hamilton
Former Director of the Software Engineering Division at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (CSDL), where she was Director in the Apollo project.

• Amy D. Wohl
Expert in the commercialization of new technology and the creation of new markets and business models.

• Dr. Ruth M. Davis
Distinguished in government service, where she helped design some of the earliest computers and satellites

• Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Known as the grandmother of COBOL. Developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.

• Dr. Thelma Estrin (AWC service award the year before the AAL Award started)
Pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering and professor of computer science at UCLA