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Sure, I'll take the bait: what women or people of color have done as much for the field as, say, Stallman? Exclude folks that have already gotten recognition (l
by angersock 11y ago
Sure, I'll take the bait: what women or people of color have done as much for the field as, say, Stallman? Exclude folks that have already gotten recognition (like Hopper).
- empthought 11y agoThat's easy: Pat Selinger. Oh wait, she won this very same award in 1988 for much more important work, and yet you've never even heard of her.
- renox 11y agoMuch more important work? I disagree sorry.
- angersock 11y agoFor those that are curious, she did some very important work in the development of relational database technology--specifically, on query optimization ( http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~coms4111/docs/selinger.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~coms4111/docs/selinger.pdf ).
- pron 11y agoI am not on any search committee for future award recipients, but I'm surprised by your comment because there have been women (three in the past decade) and people of color who have received the far more prestigious Turing award, you know (not, BTW, Grace Hopper, who has been awarded much fame but not so much with actual academic prizes). Specifically for the prize Stallman has received (for developers of successful/important software), a few men of color received it before him, and only two years ago a woman did, too (for Coq).