June 04, 2009
ACM Honors Habermann, WilliamsInaugural Influential Educator Award granted posthumously to A. Nico Habermann, the founding dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science; Professor Laurie Williams of North Carolina State University also honored
The late A. Nico Habermann, founding dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) with its inaugural Influential Educator Award. Habermann was cited "for significant and lasting contributions to the field of software engineering as a teacher and mentor." His widow, Marta Habermann, accepted the award from William Griswold, SIGSOFT chair, at the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 21 in Vancouver. Two of Habermann's children, Frits and Marianne, also attended. "Nico had amazing impact on his profession, the computer science community and our university," said Randal E. Bryant, dean of the School of Computer Science. "He had a great ability to connect with people at both a technical and a personal level. His impact on software engineering has been profound, not only through his technical contributions, but also in establishing the Software Engineering Institute and in the many students who have followed in his footsteps." Laurie Williams of North Carolina State University also was a recipient of the award this year. Williams leads the Software Engineering Realsearch research group at NCSU. Williams is an agile software development pioneer and has worked collaboratively with high tech industries like ABB Corporation, Cisco, IBM Corporation, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Red Hat, Sabre Airline Solutions, SAS, and Tekelec. This was the first year that SIGSOFT presented the Influential Educator Award. The annual award is intended to recognize contributions to education that are vital to the advancement of software engineering, but that too often go unnoticed.
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