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The ACM Athena Lecturer Award honors female reseachers in Computer Science, who made fundamental contributions to the field. Since 2006 the prize if given by the Association for Computing Machinery to an outstanding woman. ^[1] Till 2015 is was given by ACM-W. ^[2]

2006–2007: Deborah Estrin of UCLA
2007–2008: Karen Spärck Jones of University of Cambridge
2008–2009: Shafi Goldwasser of MIT and the Weitzmann Institute of Science
2009–2010: Susan J. Eggers of the University of Washington
2010–2011: Mary Jane Irwin of the Pennsylvania State University
2011–2012: Judith S. Olson of the University of California, Irvine
2012–2013: Nancy Lynch of MIT
2013–2014: Katherine Yelick of LBNL
2014–2015: Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research
2015–2016: Jennifer Widom of Stanford University
2016–2017: Jennifer Rexford of Princeton University
2017–2018: Lydia Kavraki of Rice University
2018–2019: Andrea Goldsmith of Princeton University
2019–2020: Elisa Bertino of Purdue University
2020–2021: Sarit Kraus of Bar-Ilan University
2021–2022: Ayanna Howard of Ohio State University
2022–2023: Éva Tardos of Cornell University
2023–2024: Margo Seltzer of University of British Columbia
2024–2025: Maja Matarić of University of Southern California
2025–2026: Cordelia Schmid of INRIA
2026–2027: Monika Henzinger of Institute of Science and Technology Austria

References

↑ "ACM Athena Lecturers Award". ACM. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
↑ "ACM-W Athena Lecturers Award Winners". ACM. Retrieved 2016-03-19.

[1] "ACM Athena Lecturers Award". ACM. Retrieved 2026-09-16.

[2] "ACM-W Athena Lecturers Award Winners". ACM. Retrieved 2016-03-19.

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