Frances Allen

Frances Allen
Born
Frances Elizabeth Allen

(1932-08-04)August 4, 1932
DiedAugust 4, 2020(2020-08-04) (aged 88)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity at Albany (BS)
University of Michigan (MS)
Spouse
(m. 1972⁠–⁠1982)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsIBM
New York University
Websitewww.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/wit_hall_allen.html

Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020)[2][3] 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] Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization.[8] She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently was a Fellow Emerita.[9]

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  3. ^ Croucher, John S. "Frances 'Fran' Elizabeth Allen", Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives. Gloucester UK: Amberley Publishing 2019, 21-23.
  4. ^ Frances Allen author profile page at the ACM Digital Library Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Abbate, Janet (August 2, 2001). "Oral-History:Frances "Fran" Allen". Archived at the ETHW. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Interview #573 for the IEEE History Center. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  6. ^ Frances Allen at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  7. ^ Steele Jr., Guy (2011). "An interview with Frances E. Allen". Communications of the ACM. 54: 39–45. doi:10.1145/1866739.1866752. S2CID 11847872.
  8. ^ "IBM Fellow becomes first woman to receive A. M. Turing Award". IBM. Archived from the original on March 6, 2007. Retrieved September 28, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), IBM Corporation.
  9. ^ Steele, Guy. "Frances Allen". amturing.acm.org. Retrieved May 6, 2021.

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