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Contact: Tina Angelone
New York, February 10, 1997… The Association for Computing (ACM) announced that Dr. Shafrira Goldwasser, professor of the electrical engineering and computer science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be honored with the 1996 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. The award will be presented to Dr. Goldwasser during the ACM awards banquet on Mar. 2,1997, which will be held in conjunction with "ACM97: The Next 50 Years of Computing," a world-wide interactive event on the long-term impact of information technology. Dr. Goldwasser is honored "for her early work relating computation, randomness, knowledge, and proofs, which has shaped the foundations of probabilistic computation theory, computational number theory, and cryptography. This work is a continuing influence in design and certification of secure communications protocols, with practical applications to development of secure networks and computer systems." The Grace Murray Hopper Award is presented to an outstanding young computer professional on the basis of a single major technical or service contribution. A prize of $5,000 is supplied by Unisys. The candidate must have been 30 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. ACM is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership by delivering cutting-edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM, with its world class journals, magazines and books, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops, and electronic forums, is a primary resource to the IT field. For additional information about ACM, visit our web site at http://www.acm.org.
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