First woman wins prestigious computing award

Here’s some cool news to start your weekend off with:

One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award’s 40-year history.
Frances E. Allen, 74, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another.

Allen started working at IBM in 1957, around the time the company was recruiting women by using a brochure called “My Fair Ladies.” Awesome.
Via Women and Tech News.