1984—Best Paper Award, International Parallel Processing Conference, Chicago, August, 1984 1995—USENIX/LISA Lifetime Achievement Award[11] 1999—Top 25 Women on the Web Award[12] 2007—Distinguished Engineering Honoree at CU-Boulder[13] 5th Annual Telluride Tech Fest Honoree 2018—NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award[14]