I am not on any search committee for future award recipients, but I&#x27;m surprised by your comment because there <i>have</i> been women (three in the past decade) and people of color who have received the far more prestigious Turing award, you know (not, BTW, Grace Hopper, who has been awarded much fame but not so much with actual academic prizes). Specifically for the prize Stallman has received (for developers of successful&#x2F;important software), a few men of color received it before him, and only two years ago a woman did, too (for Coq).