Silicon Ceiling

According an article in the The Los Angeles Times, "Top Computer Award Breaks Gender Barrier after 40 Years," one of my professional associations, The Association for Computing Machinery, has finally encouraged the contributions of one of its female pioneers. (I'm a card-carrying member of graphics and interactivity arm of the ACM, SIGGRAPH.) Of course, I'm also part of the Modern Language Association, and they've been giving awards to women for a long time without much fanfare.