Frances E. Allen
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 4 years ago |
Date of birth | August 4,1932 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Peru |
New York | |
United States | |
Known for | Supercomputer |
Parallel computing | |
Compiler | |
Optimizing compiler | |
Died | Schenectady |
New York | |
United States | |
Affiliations | University Of California |
Berkeley | |
Spous | Jacob T. Schwartz (m. 1972–1982) |
Alma mater | State University of New York at Albany |
BS | |
University of Michigan | |
Awards | Turing Award |
Field | High-performance computing |
Optimizing | |
Date of died | August 4,2020 |
Education | University of Michigan |
University at Albany | |
Nationality | American |
Citations | 1,960 |
Publications | scholar.google.com |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 658932 |
Frances E. Allen Life story
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.