U.S. computer scientist Frances "Fran" E. Allen will receive the 2006 Turing Award in June 2007 for her work in program optimization that set the stage for today's high-speed computing systems. Allen ...
It’s Thursday’s IT Blogwatch: in which IBM’s Frances Allen becomes the first female recipient of the ACM’s Turing Award. Not to mention Øystein Bache and Rune Gokstad’s take on the helpdesks of old… ...