Sharon Goldwater has won the BCS Roger Needham award for outstanding work in computational linguistics. BCS is the Chartered Institute for Information Technology. Their Roger Needham Award, sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge, is awarded for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within 10 years of their PhD. The BCS press release about Dr Goldwater's award says: Sharon Goldwater is a Reader in our Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. She is an internationally leading researcher who has made major interdisciplinary research contributions across natural language processing, machine learning, and computational cognitive science.