Dr. Gray is a leader in the field of database systems and transaction processing and has received several computer science awards, including the prestigious Turing Award in 1998.
The number of bachelor's degrees in computer science awarded in the United States has been declining for a decade, to 24,800 in 1995 from 42,200 in 1986.
Ms. Koller was honored last week with a new computer sciences award sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Indian computer services firm Infosys.
The number of computer science degrees awarded in the United States began rising in 2010, and will reach 11,000 this year, after plummeting each year since the end of the dot-com bubble in 2004, according to the Computing Research Association, which tracks enrollment and degrees.
The latest figures from the Computing Research Association Taulbee Survey suggest that less than 12% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2010-11.
If less than 20percentt of computer science degrees are awarded to women in the first place, how can we expect a proportionate number of women to move forward into entrepreneurship or engineering careers?
In 1969 the US Association of Computing Machinery gave him the highest honour in computer science, the AM Turing Award.
In 1969, she was awarded the first ever Computer Science Man of the Year Award. .
Named for computer science pioneer Alan Turing, the award is widely regarded as the highest distinction in Computer Science.
In one analysis, the researchers examined all winners of the Nobel Prize (physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, literature, and peace), the Fields Medal (mathematics), and the Turing Award (computer science) and identified each recipient's undergraduate school.
