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Fran Allen Wins Turing Award

Posted by kdawson on from the one-small-step-for-a-woman dept.

shoemortgage writes "The Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing. Allen,74, is the first woman to receive the Turing Award in the 41 years of its history. She retired from IBM in 2002."

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  1. Re:So, has the black guy won yet? by P(0)(!P(k)+P(k+1)) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see you, too, got bumped down to “-1 Offtopic” within 60 seconds; I think Zonk is to blame (being a repressive Bolshevik, after all).