Computing Educators Oral History Project
CEOHP collection summaries: Fran Allen
Location(s) where grew up: Upstate New York, USA
Location(s) for post-secondary education: bachelors degree from the New York State College for Teachers (now now State University of New York at Albany); Master's in mathematics from University of Michigan
Location(s) where employed: IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York
Career stage when interviewed: Late in career; taught briefly before working for IBM for 45 years
Areas of interest: Compilers, code optimization, parallelization
Highlights: First female IBM Fellow (1989); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994); first woman to win the Turing Award (2006)
Note: this interview includes only a brief video, so is an exception to the rule for CEOHP.
Interviewed October 2, 2008 by Barbara Boucher Owens
