{"id":1390,"date":"2020-03-09T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2020-02-26T16:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:53:55","slug":"womens-history-month-frances-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/womens-history-month-frances-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"#SheIsWhyICode Women’s History Month – Frances Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Frances E Allen (1932 \u2013 present)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In 2006, Frances became the first woman to receive ACM\u2019s Turing Award. She was also the first female IBM Fellow. She joined IBM in 1957 after working as a teacher and earning her master\u2019s degree in mathematics. She planned to return to teaching once her student loans were paid off, but ended up staying with IBM for her entire 45 year career.\u00a0 She is known for leading developments in the field of optimizing compilers. She is recognized for her accomplishments in development of compilers, parallelization and code optimization. She also played a role in intelligence work on programming languages as well as security codes for The National Security Agency (NSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/amturing.acm.org\/award_winners\/allen_1012327.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During Women’s History Month this March, ACM is encouraging computing professionals and students to use the hashtag #SheIsWhyICode to share stories of women in computing who have inspired them at any point in their career or education. The stories might range in topic from one\u2019s earliest introduction to computer science to overcoming a recent professional obstacle, and the subjects could vary from luminaries of the computing field to someone\u2019s high school computer science teacher or current boss.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frances E Allen (1932 \u2013 present) In 2006, Frances became the first woman to receive ACM\u2019s Turing Award. She was also the first female IBM Fellow. She joined IBM in 1957 after working as a teacher and earning her master\u2019s degree in mathematics. She planned to return to teaching once her student loans were paid … Continue reading #SheIsWhyICode Women’s History Month – Frances Allen<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siguccs.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}