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In 1997, Allen was inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in Technology

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Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (August 4, 1932) is an American computer and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. His achievements include work on compilers, code optimization, and parallel computing. He also played an important role in the creation of programming languages ​​and security codes for the American National Security Agency.

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Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (August 4, 1932) is an American computer and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. His achievements include work on compilers, code optimization, and parallel computing. He also played an important role in the creation of programming languages ​​and security codes for the American National Security Agency.

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In high school she was greatly inspired by her math teacher, and set out to become a math teacher herself.

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Allen grew up on a farm in New York and graduated from The New york Stage college to teacher (now State university of New York Albany, SUNY) with a B.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1954.

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She started to work in 1957 in the IBM research section, being a pioneer in the field of parallel task automation and compiler optimization.

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Frances Elizabeth Allen

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Allen is a pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers, programs that translate source code written in a programming language into machine code for direct use by a computer. Her specialty is the development of advanced compilers for making such computers work faster and more efficiently.