First woman to earn PhD in Computer Science wins Turing Award

Barbara Liskov, the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. from a computer-science department and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the A.M. Turing Award for 2008. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3652/first-woman-in-us-to-earn-a-phd-from-a-computer-science-department-wins-the-turing-award