Frances Allen was announced as the winner of the 2007 Alan M. Turing Award yesterday, making her the first woman to receive what is often called the “Nobel Prize of computing.” The award, given annually since 1966 by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), honors “contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing.”Allen was recognized for her fundamental contributions to program optimization and parallel computing, among other things. She is presently an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T.J. Watson Research Center. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe According to her bio on IBM’s website, she joined IBM Research in 1957 to teach FORTRAN to other researchers—it was a second job for the math teacher looking to pay off college debt. She has been with IBM since, while acting as visiting professor to many universities and working on projects for the National Security Agency. She is now studying compilers and high-performance computer systems. ACM will present the Turing Award with its $100,000 prize to Allen at its annual awards banquet on June 9.Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content brandpost Four Leadership Motions make leading transformative work easier The Four Leadership Motions can be extremely beneficial —they don’t just drive results among software developers, they help people make extraordinary progress wherever they lead. By Jason Fraser, Director, Product Management & Design, VMware Tanzu Labs, Public Sector Sep 21, 2023 5 mins IT Leadership feature The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far In 2022, the big AI story was the technology emerging from research labs and proofs-of-concept, to it being deployed throughout enterprises to get business value. This year started out about the same, with slightly better ML algorithms and improved d By Maria Korolov Sep 21, 2023 16 mins Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence opinion 6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture EA is a complex endeavor made all the more challenging by the mistakes we enterprise architects can’t help but keep making — all in an honest effort to keep the enterprise humming. By Peter Wayner Sep 21, 2023 9 mins Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy Software Development opinion CIOs worry about Gen AI – for all the right reasons Generative AI is poised to be the most consequential information technology of the decade. Plenty of promise. But expect novel new challenges to your enterprise data platform. By Mike Feibus Sep 20, 2023 7 mins CIO Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe