A woman wins top prize in computing
One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the Turing Award, has gone to a went to a woman for the first time in the award's 40-year history.
Frances E. Allen was honored by the Association for Computing Machinery for her work at IBM on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another.
Allen also made significant contributions to the field of supercomputing.
Allen joined IBM in 1957 after earning a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Guest: John Hennessy, a computer scientist who's now president of Stanford University
