Fran Allen Wins Turing Award 79
shoemortgage writes "The Association for Computing Machinery has named Frances E. Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing. Allen,74, is the first woman to receive the Turing Award in the 41 years of its history. She retired from IBM in 2002."
So wait... (Score:4, Funny)
Ryan Fenton
Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)
Does she deserve the award? (Score:3, Funny)
Just put either her, or a previous winner of the award, in a sealed room and let me ask converse with them via slips of paper passed back and forth. If I can't tell the difference, then she must deserve the award.
Now, if only I can come up with a clever name for this test...
Astronomy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So, has the black guy won yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, next thing you know they'll be giving it to some gay guy.