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Frances Allen (other)
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Frances Allen (1932–2020) was an American computer scientist. Frances Allen may also refer to: *Frances J. Allen, Canadian general * Frances Margaret Allen or Fanny Allen (1784–1819), Roman Catholic nun * Frances Stebbins Allen (1854–1941), American photographer * Frances Elizabeth Allan or Betty Allan (1905–1952), Australian statistician *Frances Daisy Emery Allen (1876–1958), pioneering physician in Fort Worth, Texas See also *Francis Allen (other) Francis Allen may refer to: * Francis Allen (1518/19-66/76), Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston * Francis Allen (regicide) (c. 1583–1658), English politician and a regicide of Charles I *Francis Allen (Jesuit) (c. 1645–1712), Roman Catholic * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Allen
Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently was a Fellow Emerita. Early life and education Allen grew up on a farm in Peru, New York, near Lake Champlain, as the oldest of six children. Her father was a farmer, and her mother an elementary schoolteacher. Her early elementary education took place in a one-room school house a mile away from her home, and she later attended a local high school. She graduated from The New York State College for Teachers (now part of the University at Albany, SUNY) with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in 1954 and began teaching school in Peru, New York. After two years, she enrolled at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances J
Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the Franks who were named for the francisca, the axe they used in battle. https://nameberry.com/babyname/frances Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Frances, Countess of Périgord (died 1481) * Frances (musician) (born 1993), British singer and songwriter * Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923), American temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer * Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde (1567–1633), English noblewoman and Irish countess * Frances E. Burns (1866-1937), American social leader and business executive * Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (1590–1632), central figure in a famous scandal and murder * Frances Lewis Brackett Damon (1857–1939), American poet, writer * Frances Davidson, Viscountess Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Margaret Allen
Frances Margaret "Fanny" Allen (November 13, 1784 – September 10, 1819) was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War officer Ethan Allen, she converted to Catholicism and entered the Montreal convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph in 1811. Biography Early life Born on November 13, 1784, Frances Margaret Allen was the eldest child of the American patriot Ethan Allen and his second wife, Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan Allen. She was born in a house built by her father on the side of the Batten Kill in Sunderland, Vermont. Her family moved to various settlements in Vermont in her youth, and Frances, who was called Fanny, spent her childhood in Burlington, Westminster, and Swanton. She was four years old when her father died suddenly on February 12, 1789. After her father's death, the family moved to Westminster to live with her maternal grandmother. It was in Westminster that Allen's mother married Dr. Jabez P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Stebbins Allen
Frances Stebbins Allen (1854–1941) was an American photographer. Allen was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts to Josiah Allis Allen and Mary, née Stebbins. She and her sister, Mary Electa Allen Mary Electa Allen (1858–1941) was an American photographer and co-founder of the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework. She worked alongside her sister as a photographer from 1885 until 1920 capturing the life and landscape of Old Dee ... (1858–1941), were schoolteachers, who left teaching when they became deaf in their thirties. Their deafness led Allen and her sister to take up photography. By 1895, they were permanently exhibiting and selling their prints from their families ancestral home. Many of their works were never attributed to one sister or the other, but to "the Misses Allen." Many of their idyllic images harken back to an idealized version of the region's colonial history. In 1899, the Allen sisters joined Deerfield's Arts and Crafts Movement, and began to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Elizabeth Allan
Frances Elizabeth Allan (1905–1952) was an Australian statistician. She was known as the first statistician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as "the effective founder of the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics", and for her advocacy of biometrics. Allan was born on 11 July 1905 in St Kilda, Victoria; her parents were both journalists with '' The Argus'', and she was one of four sisters. As a schoolgirl, she attended the Melbourne Church of England Girls' Grammar School. She studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, earning a bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's in 1928 for her work with John Henry Michell on solitary waves on liquid-liquid interfaces. In 1928 Allan traveled on a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied applied mathematics, statistics, applied biology, and general agriculture. A year later, she travelled to Rothamsted Experimental Station in Hertforshire to work alongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Daisy Emery Allen
Dr. Frances Daisy Emery Allen (1876–1958) was a pioneering physician in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the first female graduate of a medical college in the state of Texas and one of the first female physicians to practice in Tarrant County. Early life Frances Daisy Emery was born September 5, 1876, in Kaufman County, Texas, to James Wallace and Elizabeth Brown Emery. James Wallace Emery had a master's degree from Bowdoin College and had been an outspoken abolitionist in the 1850s. The ninth of twelve children, four-year-old Daisy announced her intentions to become a doctor, a goal encouraged by her parents. The Emery family moved to Fort Worth when Daisy was fourteen years old. She attended Fort Worth public schools, where her father was also a teacher, and graduated from Fort Worth High School. Medical training and career Daisy Emery applied to and was initially refused admission to the medical college of Fort Worth University, but was admitted when she pointed out that n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
