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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]
8 Ogo 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, smartphones...
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.
1 Mei 2024 · Frances E. Allen (born August 4, 1932, Peru, New York, U.S.—died August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist who was the first woman to win the A.M. Turing Award (2006), the highest honour in computer science, cited for her “pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation ...
9 Ogo 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.
9 Ogo 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...
Frances Allen is a pioneer of optimizing compiler techniques and automatic parallel execution. She worked on IBM's Stretch, Harvest, System/360, and ACS projects, and taught at NYU and Columbia.
