Mary Shaw is the Alan J. Perlis University Professor of Computer Science in the Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on software engineering and software design, particularly software architecture and design of systems created and used by real people. She has received the United States’ National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (with David Garlan), and the IEEE Computer Society TCSE’s Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Educator, and Distinguished Women in Software Engineering Awards,. She is an elected Fellow and Life Member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.