ACM Awards
On Saturday evening I had the privilege of attending the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Awards presentation held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. I must say it was humbling and exciting to see such amazing computer scientists all in one ballroom. These people have changed and continue changing the computer science field. It was also encouraging to see that there were many brilliant women there.
A friend, Larry Constantine, invited us to attend because he was being awarded ACM Technical Fellow for his many achievements in the computer software field. I was in charge of the camera so I hope the pictures came out! ;-)
The Turing Award (this is like the Nobel prize for computer science) was given to Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis "for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries."
Check out the many other award recipients here.
Wow.
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About Beth Massi
Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
