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Born | Frances Elizabeth Allen August 4, 1932 Peru, New York, U.S. |
Died | August 4, 2020 Schenectady, New York, U.S. | (aged 88)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University at Albany (BS) University of Michigan (MS) |
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Institutions | IBM New York University |
Website | www |
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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