CRA-WP Presents the 2022 CRA-WP Early Career Awards Honoring Skip Ellis and Anita Borg


The Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2022 Skip Ellis Early Career Award and  Anita Borg Early Career Award. Maya Cakmak of the University of Washington has been selected as the 2022 Anita Borg Early Career Award recipient. The Anita Borg Early Career Award honors […]

CRA-WP Presents the 2021 CRA-WP Early Career Awards Honoring Skip Ellis and Anita Borg


CRA-WP is honored to announce the recipients of the 2021 Skip Ellis Early Career Award and Anita Borg Early Career Award. Sanmi Koyejo of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has been selected as the 2021 Skip Ellis Early Career Award recipient. Shiri Azenkot of Cornell University was selected to receive the Distinction of Honorable Mention for this award. Finale Doshi-Velez of Harvard University has been selected as the 2021 Anita Borg Early Career Award recipient.

CRA-WP Presents the Inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award and the 2020 Anita Borg Early Career Award


CRA-WP is honored to present the 2020 CRA-WP Awards for both the inaugural Skip Ellis Early Career Award and the Anita Borg Early Career Award. Tawanna Dillahunt of the University of Michigan and Michel A. Kinsy of Boston University have been selected as the inaugural 2020 Skip Ellis Early Career Award recipients. The Skip Ellis […]

CRA-W Alum Recipient of 2017 A. Nico Habermann Award


Carol Frieze – A. Nico Habermann Award Winner Director of SCS4ALL and Women@SCS, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Carol Frieze was selected as the recipient of the 2017 A. Nico Habermann Award Winner for devoting nearly two decades to promoting diversity and inclusiveness in computing. She has worked with and supported a wide variety of students […]

Martha Kim and Hanna Wallach are BECA winners for 2016


CRA-W is proud to announce that Martha Kim (Columbia University) and Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research and University of Massachusetts, Amherst) are this year’s Borg Early Career Award Winners. Martha Kim is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She is committed to promoting diversity in computer science.  She has been particularly active in high school outreach, participating in high-school oriented conferences […]

Ayanna Howard: A. Nico Habermann Award Winner


Ayanna Howard was selected as the recipient of the 2016 A. Nico Habermann Award for her sustained commitment to increasing diversity, combined with her distinction in research. She has a decades-long track record of improving access to research for women and underrepresented minorities (URMs), as well as students with disabilities. Dating back to her work […]

Maria Klawe: Distinguished Service Award Winner


Maria Klawe was selected as the 2016 recipient of the CRA Distinguished Service Award for her tireless commitment to and profound impact on the computing research community. Klawe is the president of Harvey Mudd College and has previously served as president of the Association for Computing Machinery. She helped Anita Borg and Telle Whitney establish […]

Ann Quiroz Gates Wins the Nico Habermann Award


Originally Printed in the Winter/Spring 2015 Newsletter The recipient of the 2015 A. Nico Habermann Award is Ann Quiroz Gates, Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). CRA awards the Habermann, usually annually, to a person who has made outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers […]

Mary Lou Soffa wins the IEEE-ACM Ken Kennedy Award


Mary Lou Soffa of the University of Virginia received the ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for contributions to detecting and managing software security flaws. She developed software tools for debugging and testing programs to eliminate or reduce false alarms and improve operating efficiency.  Her research produced automatic, practical solutions in software engineering, systems and […]

Anne Condon Wins the Technical Leadership ABIE Award


Originally printed in the Summer/Fall 2014 Newsletter Anne Condon, professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, is the 2014 recipient of the Grace Hopper Celebration Technical Leadership ABIE Award. She received her Bachelor’s degree (1982) from University College Cork, Ireland, and her Ph.D. (1987) at the University […]