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Frances Allen
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American computer scientist (1932–2020)
OverviewAI-generated
Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932–2020) was an American computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher. She worked at IBM, the University of California, Berkeley, New York University, and the University of California, San Diego. Allen was educated at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Michigan. Her professional interests included computer science and computational science.
She received several awards, including the Turing Award, IBM Fellow, Computer Pioneer Award, and ACM Fellow. She was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Association for Computing Machinery. Her Erdős number was 7. She was married to Jacob T. Schwartz.
Allen authored works such as *Poetry with a purpose*, *Handbook for information officers*, and *Keeping parents posted*. She died of Alzheimer's disease in Schenectady.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Poetry with a purpose
- Handbook for information officers
- Keeping parents posted
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Key facts
- Born
- Frances Elizabeth Allen , ( 1932-08-04 ) August 4, 1932, Peru, New York , U.S.
- Died
- August 4, 2020 (2020-08-04) (aged 88), Schenectady, New York , U.S.
- Citizenship
- American
- Education
- University at Albany ( BS ), University of Michigan ( MS )
- Spouse
- Jacob T. Schwartz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 – 1982 )
- Awards
- ACM Fellow (1994) IBM Fellow (1989) Ada Lovelace Award (2002) Computer Pioneer Award (2004) Turing Award (2006) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
- Fields
- Computer science High-performance computing Parallel computing Compilers Optimizing compilers
- Institutions
- IBM , New York University
- Website
- www .ibm .com /ibm /history /witexhibit /wit _hall _allen .html
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elizabeth
- Family name
- Allen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York
- Place of death
- Schenectady
- Spouse
- Jacob T. Schwartz
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- University of Michigan
- Field of work
- computational science
- Image
- Frances Allen Dec 11 2007.jpg
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- Commons category
- Frances E. Allen
- date of birth
- 1932-08-04
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Erdős number
- 7
- date of death
- 2020-08-04
- name in native language
- Frances Elizabeth Allen
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/technology/frances-allen-dead.html
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- interested in
- computer science
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently was a Fellow Emerita.
Early life and education
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