The Turing award is the equivalent of the Nobel for Computer Science. It is awarded annually by ACM. Frances Allen is the first woman recipient of the award.
-- Vinayak IBM ? NIAS ? ACM Turing Award Public Lecture Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems Frances E Allen ? 2006 TURING Award Winner IBM FELLOW EMERITA, FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE ACM TURING AWARD Abstract: This talk is a variant of the Turing Award Lecture the speaker gave in June 2007. Increasing the delivered performance of computers by running programs in parallel is an old idea with a new urgency. Multi cores (multi processors) on chips have emerged as a way to increase performance wherever chips are used. This is a hardware/architectural solution to increasing performance. The talk will focus on the role programming languages and compilers must play in delivering parallel performance to users and applications. The speaker's personal experiences with languages and compilers for high performance systems will provide the basis for her observations. The talk is intended to encourage the exploration of new approaches. Bio: Fran Allen is an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T. J. Watson Research Laboratory with a specialty in compilers and program optimization for high performance computers. This work led to Fran being named the recipient of ACM's 2006 Turing Award "For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution." She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Engineers, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and the Computer History Museum. She has served on numerous national technology boards including CISE at the National Science Foundation and CSTB for the National Research Council. Her many awards and honors include honorary doctorates from the University of Alberta (1991), Pace University (1999), and the University of Illinois at Urbana (2004). Fran is an active mentor, advocate for technical women in computing, environmentalist, and explorer Program to be presided over by Dr. C. Mohan, IBM Fellow and IBM India Chief Scientist and Professor B.V.Sreekantan,NIAS, Former Director, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. On Wednesday, 19th December, 2007 Time: 2 PM Venue: JRD TATA Auditorium, National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore -560012 Phone: 91-80-22185029 Organisers: ACM Bangalore Chapter: www.acmbangalore.org IBM Center for Advanced Studies : www.ibm.com/ibm/cas National Institute of Advanced Studies: www.iisc.ernet.in/nias Subscribe to ACM Bangalore Chapter mailing list @ http://groups.google.com/group/acm-bangalore-chapter?hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20071217/6434d1cc/attachment.html>
