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computing award goes to female for first time

(AP) -- One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award's 40-year history.

Frances E. Allen, 74, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another.

This process is required to turn programming code into the binary zeros and ones actually read by a computer's colossal array of minuscule switches."

Posted by Krista on February 25, 2007 08:37 PM |

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Nothing is better than a clean and fast compile! Doesn't mean the program works like it should (only as designed), but the syntax is right on.

Posted by: JuliaT | February 26, 2007 10:05 PM

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