Frances Allen

Frances Elizabeth Allen 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.

4 August 1932

Born on the same birth date (4 August 1932): Liang Congjie

Born on the same birth day (4 August): Aleksandr Aleksandrov (mathematician) • Barack Obama • Bethan Benwell • Bret Baier • Brian Crozier • Coriún Aharonián • Dennis Lehane • Deputy Prime Minister of Finland • Frances Stewart (economist) • John Gormley • Jon Knott • Keith Ellison • Liang Congjie • Martin Jarvis (actor) • Mayme Agnew Clayton • Richard Belzer • Walter Pater • William Holman • Witold Gombrowicz

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