The award, presented by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO), is one of the most important prizes in the field of object-oriented software technology.
In January of this year, Mira Mezini, Head of the Software Technology Group at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and Principal Investigator at the LOEWE center emergenCITY, was named an ACM Fellow for her outstanding contributions. Now she will be honored with the Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize during the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP) between June 30 and July 4, which will highlight her role in the avant-garde of programming languages and software development.
ECOOP particularly emphasizes her leading role in aspect-oriented programming and her contribution to solving open problems related to aspect orientation and module systems as well as her work on automated code completion. The latter she realized through the use of data mining, which enables AI to make suggestions that go beyond static type analysis.
The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to an established (senior) researcher for outstanding long-term achievements and a younger (junior) researcher with a promising contribution in the field of object orientation. In 2004, the prize was donated by AITO and named after the pioneers of object orientation, Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.
For her outstanding research, the professor has received two IBM Eclipse Innovation Awards (2005 and 2006), the research funding award ERC Advanced Grant (2012), the German IT Security Award (2014), a Google Research Award (2017) and the LOEWE Top Professorship of the State of Hesse (2023). She is also a member of the Leopoldina, the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and Academia Europea.
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