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Frances Allen
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American computer scientist (1932–2020)
OverviewAI-generated
Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932–2020) was an American computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher. Born in Peru, New York, she died in Schenectady of Alzheimer's disease. Allen was educated at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Michigan. Her professional career included employment at IBM, the University of California, Berkeley, New York University, and the University of California, San Diego. She was married to Jacob T. Schwartz.
Allen received several honors, including the Turing Award, the Computer Pioneer Award, and fellowships from IBM and the Association for Computing Machinery. She was a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. Her fields of work included computer science and computational science.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Poetry with a purpose
- Handbook for information officers
- Keeping parents posted
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1985-05-02
Discography
- Smile2006
- Alright, Still2006
- LDN2006
- Littlest Things2006
- U Killed It2006
- Alfie2007
- Shame for You2007
- Alfie2007
- Oh My God2007
- Drivin’ Me Wild2007
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 32
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frances+Allen">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,398x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
- Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis
· 1952 · cited 10,890x
via Crossref · CC0
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
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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