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Date of Birth
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04-August-1932
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Place of Birth
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Peru
(Clinton County, New York)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Frances E. Allen, Fran Allen
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Profession
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Engineer, Computer Scientist
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Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.
Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award.
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