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Past Award
Recipients
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
Forefront
of information warfare, security, and cryptography fields
Adele Mildred Koss
Developed the first compilers
Esther
Dyson
A powerful thinker in the computing industry!
Betty
Holberton
One of the six original programmers of ENIAC
Dr.
Anita Borg
Founder of Systers
Jean
Sammet
Expert in programming languages
Margaret
H. Hamilton
Founder of Higher Order Software
Amy
D. Wohl
Pioneer of office automation and ergonomics
Dr.
Ruth M. Davis
Distinguished in government service
Grace
Murray Hopper
Known for COBOL
Dr.
Thelma Estrin
Professor of computer science at UCLA
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Dr. Dorothy E. Denning
2001 Lovelace Award Recipient
 Dorothy E. Denning is the Patricia and Patrick Callahan Family Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and Director of the Georgetown Institute for Information Assurance. Her current work encompasses the areas of cyber crime and cyber terrorism, information warfare and security, and cryptography. She has published 120 articles and four books, her most recent being Information Warfare and Security. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on encryption policy and cyber terrorism, and has served in leadership and advisory positions with government agencies and private sector organizations.
Dr. Denning is an ACM Fellow and recipient of the National Computer Systems Security Award, the TechnoSecurity Professional of the Year Award, the
Distinguished Lecture in Computer Security Award, and a best paper award. In November 2001, she was named a Time magazine innovator. She received
B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University. She has previously worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, SRI International, and Purdue University.
(http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/)
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