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February 28, 2007
First Female Turing Award Winner
For those of you who don't know, the Turing Award is basically the Nobel Prize for computer science. For the first time ever, a woman, Frances Allen, has won this award for her work in parallel computing at IBM.
This is a really interesting interview with Allen. I'm doing some looking around to find more anecdotes from her career, as it spans the time from when anyone could work in computing through it becoming a male-dominated profession (from which she thinks the tide is just beginning to shift). As a woman in a tech job, with degrees in computer science and networking, this is something that has always been of interest to me. I hope you find her stories of interest, too.
Posted by Janice Ryan at February 28, 2007 12:07 PM
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