![Nancy Lynch, MIT [image courtesy ACM].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/lynch_sm.jpg "Nancy Lynch, MIT [image courtesy ACM].")
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) yesterday named MIT’s Nancy Lynch its 2012-13 Athena Lecturer, recognizing Lynch for her advances in distributed systems enabling dependable Internet and wireless network applications. The Athena Lecturer award, which comes with a $10,000 honorarium provided by Google, “celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.”
According to the press release:
“Lynch’s work has influenced both theoreticians and practitioners,” said Mary Jane Irwin, who heads the ACM-W Athena Lecturer award committee. “Her ability to formulate many of the core problems of the field in clear and precise ways has provided a foundation that allows computer system designers to find ways to work around the limitations she verified, and to solve problems with high probability” [more following the link].
![DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt [image courtesy IEEE Spectrum].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pratt.jpeg "DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt [image courtesy IEEE Spectrum].")
