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Fran was another IBM fellow\u2026 Actually one of the first ones that I knew. She was the first woman IBM fellow\u2026 And the first woman to win the touring award\u2026 Which is as close to a Nobel prize as there is in computer science. Her specialty was optimizing compilers\u2026 She Was a great mathematician and love thinking about algorithms. She also loved people. We work together quite a bit on programs related to the vitality of our technical community and IBM. She had a great sense of humor. She was a great advocate for folks in our technical community\u2026 And always had time to mentor young upstart’s (like me)\u2026\ufffc.\u2026 I remembered today that I had run into Fran several years ago and IBM headquarters in Armonk. At that time she already seemed “old” To me\u2026 Though I’m sure she was younger than I am now.\ufffc. She was walking with a cane.\u2026 I assumed it was something like arthritis or some other complication of getting older.\u2026 I asked her about the cane\u2026 And learned that she had twisted her knee helicopter skiing in British Columbia\u2026<\/p>\n
I’m tempted to say “they don’t make them like that anymore”\u2026 But I actually hope that’s not true. Fran wouldn’t have wanted that\ufffc<\/p>\n
Nite all, night te sam<\/p>\n
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I learned this evening that my friend Fran Allen passed away today. She was 88 years old. https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frances_E._Allen Fran was another IBM fellow\u2026 Actually one of the first ones that I knew. She was the first woman IBM fellow\u2026 And the first woman to win the touring award\u2026 Which is as close to a Nobel … Continue reading Tuesday night – fran AlLen<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73634,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73600\/revisions\/73634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}