Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen

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Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen
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  • (b.) 1932 August 04 - (d.) 2020 August 04

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Pioneer in optimizing compilers and the first woman to win the Turing Award, Allen was also the first female IBM Fellow.

Allen was an expert in the field of optimizing compilers. As a pioneer in compiler organization and optimization algorithms, she made seminal contributions to the science. Her work on interprocedural analysis and automatic parallelization continued to be on the leading edge of compiler research.

Allen successfully reduced this science to practice through the transfer of this technology to products such as the STRETCH HARVEST Compiler, the COBOL Compiler, and the Parallel FORTRAN Product.

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  • Date of Birth:

    1932 August 04

  • Date of Death:

    2020 August 04

  • Gender:

    Female

  • Noted For:

    Pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers, code optimization and parallelization. First female IBM Fellow and first woman to win the Turning Award.

  • Category of Achievement:

    Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics