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Williams named 2020 ACM Fellow

Dr. Laurie Williams
Laurie Williams

Dr. Laurie Williams, Distinguished University Professor, was recently named a 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for her contributions to empirical research on agile software development, software security and software engineering education. She is the second ACM Fellow in the Computer Science Department at NC State, joining Dr. Frank Mueller who became a Fellow in 2018.

In 2020, ACM named 95 members Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science and virtual reality, among other areas. The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellow have driven innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas of technology, industry and personal life.

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