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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. Rare Women by P(0)(!P(k)+P(k+1)) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From TFA:

    This award marks the first time that a woman has received this honor.

    Great: she’s the next Countess of Lovelace; but child-birth isn’t democratic, and there’s nothing fundamental about engineering that makes it likewise democratic.

    In other words: rare women will continue to be rare women; don’t agitate us with “it’s about time” propaganda.

  2. Re:So, has the black guy won yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny, I was wondering the same thing...

  3. 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).

  4. pfth! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who cares, computers are just a fad, they're never going to catch on anyway.

  5. EpZ.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lu3rication. You notwithstanding, Suffering *BSD forwards we must member. GNAA (GAY *BSD has lost more