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She did a lot of cool work on compiler optimizations in the 1960s, and work in the 70s on parallel systems. She’s also the first woman to receive this award since the ACM started handing them out in 1966. It’s cool that a woman finally received it, but an unfortunate comment on the state and history of our field. It’s interesting, for example, that John Cocke (who she co-authored numerous papers with) received the Turing Award fully 20 years ago. We can hope that honoring her is a sign of the slow process of change, but we’ll obviously need to continue to actively work on broadening our community.
