Frances Allen

Name: Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen

Born: August 4, 1932, in Upstate New York, USA

Death: August 4, 2020 (Age: 88)

Computer-related contributions

• American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers.
• Known for her work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization.
• Had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.

Honors and awards

• Inducted into the WITI Hall of Fame (1997).
• Won the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing (2002).
• Received the A.M. Turing Award (First woman recipient in the forty year history of the award) (2006).
• First female IBM Fellow.