Comments on: For first time, woman wins Turing Award

Frances Allen, an IBM computer science veteran, to be honored by ACM for her work on program optimization and Ptran.

[dsherr1]

Grace Hopper, RIP

I am sure that Admiral Hopper is smiling in the Great Beyond. Such a shame that she never won this Turing award. She was an amazing intellect, speaker and person. But Ms. Allen is certainly worthy as my colleagues at IBM who worked with her inform me.

[Thomas, David]

Well Said ...

It's about damn time.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USNR, (1906-1992)

Grace Murray (Hopper) was born in New York City on 9
December 1906. She graduated from Vassar College in 1928
and received a PhD in Mathematics from Yale University in 1934.
She was a member of the Vassar faculty from 1931 to 1943,
when she joined the Naval Reserve. Commissioned a Lieutenant
(Junior Grade) 1944, she was assigned to the Bureau of
Ordnance and immediately became involved in the development
of the then-embryonic electronic computer. Over more than four
decades to follow, she was in the forefront of computer and
programming language progress.

Leaving active duty after the war's end, Dr. Hopper was a
member of the Harvard University faculty and, from 1949, was
employed in private industry. She retained her Naval Reserve
affiliation, attaining the rank of Commander before retiring at
the end of 1966. In August 1967, Commander Hopper was
recalled to active duty and assigned to the Chief of Naval
Operations' staff as Director, Navy Programming Languages
Group. She was promoted to Captain in 1973, Commodore in
1983 and Rear Admiral in 1985, a year before she retired from
the Naval service. She remained active in industry and education
until her death on 1 January 1992.

[bodisurfr123]

Congratulations to Frances!

Congratulations to Ms. Frances Allen! You go Girl!