Photos: Ada Lovelace Day - Women in IT we admire
Ada Lovelace Day - Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the first woman in the US to receive a PhD in computer science. She was recently awarded the A M Turing award by the Association for Computing Machinery, one of the highest honours in science and engineering, for her work in helping making software more reliable and resistant to hacking. She was only the second woman to receive the award. (Read also: blog post on Barbara Liskov)
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- 24/03/2009
Today (March 24) is Ada Lovelace Day, which aims to raise awareness of female role models in IT. Here are some of the women in technology that the Computer Weekly team admire: let us know who you look up to, or add your comments to our Ada Lovelace Day blog posts over at WITsend.
See also: Round-up of Computer Weekly's Ada Lovelace Day coverage
