Frances Allen

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen is a data processing specialist states-unienne born in 1932. Its research related to the optimization of the Compilateur S. It obtained important results on the compilers, the optimization of code and the parallel Calcul. It is the first woman to obtain the title of IBM Fellow and the first to receive the Prix Turing.

Allen grows in a farm of the State of the New York and leaves graduate the University of Albany with a BA in Mathématiques in 1954. It off obtains a Master in mathematics of the University Michigan in 1957 and starts to teach at the school with Peru in the State of the New York. Deeply involved in debt by the loans which it had to contract to pay its studies, Allen is engaged by IBM the July 15th 1957. It initially hoped to work there until its loans are refunded.

With the beginning of the year 1980, it founds the group Parallel TRANslation (PTRAN) in order to study the problems involved in compilation for the parallel architectures. The group is then regarded as one of most important in this field. Allen describes algorithms and sets up technologies which are at the base of the theory of the optimization of the programs and which are largely used in the modern compilers.

The influence of Allen on IBM was recognized by obtaining the title of IBM Fellow in 1989, it is then the first woman to receive this title. She was also president of the IBM Academy off Technology which plays an important function within IBM in order to target the engineering problems and to make dialog the various branches of technicians.

Rewards

Allen is member of the National Academy off Engineering , fellow of the IEEE , the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the American Academy off Arts and Sciences . In 2007, it forms also part of various boards of directors from company and a council of the the National Science Foundation .

Allen is established in WITI Hall off Famed in 1997. Allen takes its retirement of IBM in 2002 and gains the same year the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award on behalf of the Association for Women in Computing . In 2007, it becomes the first woman to gain the Turing Price.

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