Fran Allen
Fran Allen
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allenis 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...
both building career possibilities research role seeing standing transfer wall work
The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the work to products. I see my career as standing on a wall and seeing both ways. One way is seeing new possibilities and the other is building new products.
boundaries period productive single work
So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.
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This is the good news we have been waiting for!
doubt
It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.