First Woman to Win Turing Award
For the first time in the 40 years history of Turing Awards, a woman (Frances E Allen) has won the prestigious computing award.
Turing Awards are considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing”. They carry a $100,000 (Rs 4500,000) prize with financial support provided by Intel Corporation.
Since 1966, when the Turing Awards were first instituted, the winners have always been men. With a woman winning the award, this year marks a new beginning.
Frances E Allen (75) has been given the award for her work at IBM on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another. Programming code has to be converted into binary zeros and ones that are actually read by a computer’s colossal array of miniscule switches.
Allen joined IBM in 1957, when the company was […]
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