Former College Advisory Board Member Is First Female to Win Prestigious Turing Award

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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.

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  • Created By: Louise Russo
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Feb 9, 2010 - 4:46pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 11:05pm