Congratulations especially to Shafi Goldwasser for being, if I have counted correctly, only the third female Turing Award recipient (after Fran Allen and Barbara Liskov).

If we are to attract more girls and young women to computer science, it will help a lot for them to be able to see such role models.

Manuel Blum strikes again! I always marvel at how often I come across or use something created by him or his students [1].

[1] http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=13373