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February 21, 2007
You Go, Girl!
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing. This award marks the first time that a woman has received this honor. The Turing Award, first presented in 1966, and named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing, is widely considered the "Nobel Prize in Computing." It carries a $100,000 prize, with financial support provided by Intel Corporation. - ACM Press Release
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Yes this is cool!!!
Yay for women, a sthey should get more and more chances.
Brain matter deposited by: Joost Plattel on February 22, 2007 7:50 AM