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Frances E. Allen

1932 - 2020

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Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932 – August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently was a Fellow Emerita. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frances E. Allen is the 9th most popular computer scientist (up from 40th in 2019), the 886th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,827th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Frances E. Allen ranks 9 out of 245. Before her are Grace Hopper, Satoshi Nakamoto, Tim Berners-Lee, John McCarthy, Barbara Liskov, and Dennis Ritchie. After her are Donald Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Geoffrey Hinton, Niklaus Wirth, Lotfi A. Zadeh, and Linus Torvalds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Frances E. Allen ranks 40. Before her are Khaled al-Asaad, Melvin Schwartz, Camilo Cienfuegos, Carlos Saura, Ellen Burstyn, and Michel Legrand. After her are Abdul Halim Khaddam, Zito, Anthony Perkins, Roy Scheider, Houari Boumédiène, and Pat Morita. Among people deceased in 2020, Frances E. Allen ranks 28. Before her are Eduard Limonov, Alan Parker, Robert Hossein, Ian Holm, Jean Kennedy Smith, and John Turner. After her are Rob Rensenbrink, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Stanley Cohen, John Lewis, Diana Rigg, and John le Carré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frances E. Allen ranks 886 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929), Richard Meier (1934), Robert R. Livingston (1746), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Don Johnson (1949), and William Standish Knowles (1917). After her are Alan J. Heeger (1936), David Koch (1940), Jack Palance (1919), Frederick Reines (1918), Ray Kroc (1902), and John Deere (1804).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Frances E. Allen ranks 6. Before her are Richard Stallman (1953), Grace Hopper (1906), John McCarthy (1927), Barbara Liskov (1939), and Dennis Ritchie (1941). After her are Donald Knuth (1938), Ray Kurzweil (1948), Marvin Minsky (1927), John Cocke (1925), Don Norman (1935), and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944).

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