Shafi Goldwasser Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Jewish Women in Computer Science From hardware to software, from developing new programming languages to revolutionizing applications, Jewish women have been part of significant projects on the cutting edge of computing in the United States. Shafi Goldwasser Shafi Goldwasser was honored with the Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science, for her work in revolutionizing the field of cryptography. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/goldwasser-shafi MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser wins “the Nobel Prize in computing” June 15, 2013 MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser won the Alan M. Turing Award for her work in computer cryptography, which revolutionized internet security. http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/15/2013/this-week-in-history-mit-s-shafi-goldwasser-wins-nobel-prize-in-computing