Mira Mezini receives Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize
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, founding Co-Director of hessian.AI and head of the Software Technology research group in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, 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, her contribution to solving open problems related to aspect orientation and module systems, and her work on automated code completion. She realized the latter through data mining, which enables AI to make suggestions that go beyond static type analysis.
Named after the pioneers of object orientation
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.
