Photo: IBM You may not know who Frances Allen is from the top of your head, but you should. Not only was she the first female IBM colleague, but she was also the first female winner of the prestigious Turing Award. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Allen also pioneered computer …
Read More »Frances Allen, a pioneering computer scientist, died at the age of 88
She was in a nursing home when she died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, her great-grandfather Ryan McKee told the New York Times. Allen grew up on a farm in Peru, New York, and in 1954 received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from The New York State College for Teachers …
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