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Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born August 4, 1932, Peru, New York, USA) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.〔IBM Corporation, ("IBM Fellow becomes first woman to receive A. M. Turing Award" )〕〔Crump, Micheal, ("Frances Allen's Computer Tipping" ), ''UAB Kaleidoscope'' magazine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, September 21, 2009.〕 Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. ==Career== Allen grew up on a farm in Peru, New York and graduated from The New York State College for Teachers (now State University of New York at Albany, SUNY) with a B.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1954.〔Lohr, Steve (August 6, 2002). Scientist at Work: Frances Allen; Would-Be Math Teacher Ended Up Educating a Computer Revolution. ''New York Times''〕 She earned an M.Sc. degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1957 and began teaching school in Peru, New York.〔Lasewicz, Paul (April 5, 2003). (Frances Allen interview transcript. )〕 Deeply in debt, she joined IBM on July 15, 1957 and planned to stay only until her school loans were paid, but ended up staying for her entire 45-year career. To quote her A.M. Turing Award citation: Allen was a professor at New York University from 1970–73.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=First woman to receive ACM Turing Award )〕 Allen became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2007, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award was created in her honor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frances E. Allen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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