Frances Allen
Sign in to saveAmerican computer scientist (1932–2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1932-08-04
- Died
- 2020-08-04
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Poetry with a purpose
- Handbook for information officers
- Keeping parents posted
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 32
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 4 August 1932
- Died
- 4 August 2020
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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
Article
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.
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