When Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher asked female computer-science students at Carnegie Mellon University how they felt about majoring in a field dominated by men, the two scholars received vivid and ...
MIT Professor Barbara Liskov will receive the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computer science. Liskov is being recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for her ...
Theoretical computer scientist Manuel Blum has guided generations of graduate students into fruitful careers in the field. Every academic field has its superstars. But a rare few achieve superstardom ...