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Frances Allen, Who Pioneered Faster Software for Computers, Dies at 88 – Gizmodo Australia
You may not know who Frances Allen is off the top of your head, but you should. Not only was she the first female IBM fellow, but she was also the first woman winner of the prestigious Turing Award. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Allen also pioneered compu…
You may not know who Frances Allen is off the top of your head, but you should. Not only was she the first female IBM fellow, but she was also the first woman winner of the prestigious Turing Award. If that wasnt impressive enough, Allen also pioneered computer compiling the process by which the gadgets we use convert software from the high-level coding languages understood by humans, to source code executable by machines.
Allen died on August 4, her 88th birthday, at a nursing home in Schenec…
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