A Prestigious Computer Award.

In the Field of computing and computer programming, the Tuning award is one of the most prestigious awards members of the field could hope to receive. For the first time in the awards 40 year existence it was presented to a woman. 74-year-old Frances Allen was presented with the Tuning Award for her work at IBM. She did extensive and very innovative work with performance compilers, which are programs which help to turn computer code into the readable ones and zeroes. Shes also worked on intelligence analysis software for the Nation Security Agency, and helped develop Blue Gene, IBM's supercomputer. I think that this is a pretty remarkable acievement by this woman. She's as old as my grandma, who doesn't know a thing about computers, and shes been able to achieve some pretty amazing things.