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Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast – and Was Forgotten

https://voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/13/frances-elizabeth-allen-the-woman-who-made-code-run-fast-and-was-forgotten-because-it-worked/

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Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast – And Was Forgotten Because It Worked

Frances Allen sits down to discuss how compiler optimisation became computing’s invisible foundation. From farm girl to Turing Award winner, she reveals why the most profound technical achiev…

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#AdaLovelace #BarbaraLiskov #FrancesAllen #GraceHopper #MargaretHamilton

And the Nitter / birdsite thread also mentions:

#LynnConway (also a pioneer transwoman)

#RadhiaCousot #ShafiGoldwasser #NancyLynch #WangXiaoyun #PamelaZave #NancyLeveson #RuzenaBajcsy

Other than in terms of name recognition and symbolic inspiration, all of them influenced computer science more than Ada Lovelace.

Each of them deserves her own #HPREp !
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Jay Snyper Sep 7, 2020

Hommage à Frances Allen - LinuxFr.org
https://linuxfr.org/news/hommage-a-frances-allen

#RIP #FrancesAllen #Pionnière #Informatique #IBM

Hommage à Frances Allen - LinuxFr.org

L’actualité du logiciel libre et des sujets voisins (DIY, Open Hardware, Open Data, les Communs, etc.), sur un site francophone contributif géré par une équipe bénévole par et pour des libristes enthousiastes

Jay Snyper Sep 7, 2020

Frances Allen, pionnière de l’informatique, est morte
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/08/10/frances-allen-pionniere-de-l-informatique-est-morte_6048608_3382.html

#RIP #FrancesAllen #Pionnière #Informatique #IBM

Frances Allen, pionnière de l’informatique, est morte

Agée de 88 ans, elle a passé toute sa carrière à IBM, où elle a donné ses lettres de noblesse à la compilation, un des piliers de l’informatique moderne.

Teddy / Domingo (🇨🇵/🇬🇧)Aug 10, 2020
Computer scientist #FrancesAllen, whose work on computer compiling helped establish a foundation for much of modern #computer #programming, died on August 4th, her 88th birthday. She was the first woman to win the Turing Award, and the first female IBM fellow. 
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/9/21360722/frances-allen-computer-scientist-compiling-ibm
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Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88

Allen mentored other women in programming