Frances Allen (1932-2020), won the Turing Prize

Frances Elizabeth Allen, the first woman to be awarded the Turing Prize in 2006 for her contribution to the evolution of code compilation techniques, passed away in recent days. The first woman to be recognized. Originally from a small town in the state of New York, she died on Tuesday, August 4, but the news only spread over the weekend, entrusted to the overseas press by a great-grandson.

Frances E. Allen passed away at the age of 88

She was 88. Lecturer between 1970 and 1973, he spent the entirety of his career at IBM. He has also collaborated with the National Security Agency on the Harvest project and the definition of the Alpha programming language.

His vision and his work have proved to be of fundamental importance for the progress made in the field of code optimization and parallel computing. Below is an image taken during a 2011 intervention at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, for the inauguration of the exhibition entitled Revolution.



Always for the group of Armonk took part in the team involved in the realization of the architecture for the Blue Gene supercomputer. She was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

Source: The New York Times