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Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. [4] [5] [6] Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow , and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award . [7]
Aug 8, 2020 · Frances Allen, a computer scientist and researcher who helped create the fundamental ideas that allow practically anyone to build fast, efficient and useful software for computers,...
Frances Allen was a computer scientist who received the Turing Award for her work on compiler optimization and parallelization. She also mentored many IBMers and contributed to projects such as Stretch, Harvest, Alpha, ACS and Blue Gene.
Aug 9, 2020 · Frances Allen was the first woman to win the Turing Award and the first female IBM fellow. She designed and built compilers for Fortran, Stretch, and Blue Gene, and contributed to parallel computing and program optimization.
- Kim Lyons
Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist who was the first woman to win the A.M. Turing Award (2006), cited for her ‘pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution.’
- William L. Hosch
Aug 9, 2020 · Frances “Fran” Allen, a computer scientist who became a pioneer in the world of computing for her work on compiler research, died on August 4, her 88th birthday, according to an announcement ...
Aug 10, 2020 · Frances Allen, one of the leading computer scientists of her generation and a pioneer of women in tech, died last Tuesday, her 88th birthday. Allen is best known for her work on compiler organisation and optimisation algorithms.
