Frances Allen
Computer science pioneer, IBM Fellow, ACM A.M. Turing Award winner

Computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. She spent her entire 45-year career at IBM, retiring in 2002.  She was the first female to be named an IBM Fellow. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. In 2006, she became the first woman to win the ACM A.M. Turing Award.  Allen is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computer History Museum. She is currently on the National Science Foundation's CISE Advisory Board. In 1997, Allen was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.