Jeannette M. Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science, washonored Wednesday, October 08, 2008, by Gov. Ed Rendell and First LadyJudge Marjorie O. Rendell as one of seven Distinguished Daughters ofPennsylvania during a luncheon at the Governor's Residence inHarrisburg.

"This year's Distinguished Daughters ofPennsylvania have done extraordinary work in so many differentcapacities," Rendell said. Their contributions to Pennsylvania and thenation have come at the executive level, in medicine, journalism, inacademics, as mentors and as community leaders. I am grateful for thework that these women have done on our behalf to strengthen our stateand the quality of life for so many residents.

Wing,now serving as assistant director for the National Science Foundation'sComputer and Information Science and Engineering directorate, was citedfor her work in trustworthy computing, formal methods, programminglanguages, concurrent and distributed systems and software engineering,as well as her vision to make computational thinking a common part ofscience and math education.

She was honored along with Meg Cheever,founding president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy;Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation; Philadelphia Inquirer foreign affairs columnits Trudy Rubin; Deborah M Fretz, president and CEO of Sunoco Logistics PartnerL.P.; Stephanie Naidoff, founding president of Philadelphia's KimmelCenter for the Performing Arts; and Susan Weiss Shoval, a Philadelphiainsurance executive and philanthropist.

The commonwealth has honored women as Distinguished Daughters ofPennsylvania since 1949. To be selected, women must be nominated byorganizations within the commonwealth for accomplishments of statewideor national importance. They receive medals and citations.