May 2005

Martin Receives Lovelace Award

The Association for Women in Computing (AWC) presented the 2005 Augusta Ada Lovelace Award to C. Dianne Martin, GW professor of engineering and applied science and chair of the Department of Computer Science April 16, in Bloomington, MN. The award is given to individuals for outstanding scientific and technical achievement and extraordinary service to the computing community through their accomplishments and contributions on behalf of women in computing.

Martin was honored, “for exemplary dedication to improving computer education for all, for extraordinary leadership resulting in the inclusion of ethics and social impact in the computer science curriculum, and for an outstanding record of support for women and concern for children in computing.”

In her acceptance speech, Martin described the importance of support from other female colleagues who had encouraged and helped her along her path, noting, “If women had invented the first computers, they would have been multi-processors from the beginning!”

Martin is the director of GW’s Cyber Security Policy Research Institute, which promotes technical research and policy analysis of problems that have a significant computer security and information assurance component.

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