Computer Science Pioneer and Turing Award Winner Frances Allen to Visit UAB CIS
Updated on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 1:09pm
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Is Computing at a Tipping Point?
Speaker: Frances Allen
When: Mon, 09/14/2009 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
Room: HUC Auditorium
- Abstract
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Over the last 60+ years computing, communications, and information, originally emerging from disparate disciplines, have evolved into an unimagined set of capabilities influencing, directly or indirectly, nearly every person, every institution, and every endeavor in much of the world. These capabilities form a global infrastructure for a world where time and place are often irrelevant, access to information is instantaneous, and knowledge widely shared.The talk will address the following question: Will the rate at which computing capabilities develop continue or has the field reached a tipping point? She will draw on her experience with languages, compilers, and high performance computing to suggest a few answers.
- Biography
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Frances E. Allen is an IBM Fellow Emerita who is known as a pioneer in computer science for her seminal contributions to the areas of optimizing compilers and parallelization. She joined IBM in 1957 and remained there for her entire 45 year career until her retirement in 2002. In 2006, Allen received the highest recognition possible in the field of computer science when she became the first female awarded the A. M. Turing Award in its 40 year history. The Turing Award is commonly recognized as "the Nobel Prize of Computing".
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